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Paris Photo Opens Thursday, November 12th, in the Grand Palais
Paris Photo is the largest international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium and is held each November in the heart of Paris. Since 1997, the Fair's mission is to…
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19th-Century Erotic Photographs
By Matt Damsker
There is very little that is new under the sun, so it stands to reason that erotic photography flourished in the 19th century as an early passion of…
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CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY: TRUTH & THE BURDEN OF REALITY
There has been a tremendous amount of discussion in the popular press lately about photography's relationship with reality. The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer with more than a decade…
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