Susan Spiritus is celebrating her photography gallery's 50th anniversary this month (actually on June 18th), making her public photo gallery one of the oldest of its type currently still in…
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Born October 21,1912 in Paris, Maurice George Chanu lived and worked primarily in that city for most of his life. In 1948, he put together a photo album…
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