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The history of curiosity reminds us that accidents will happen, and instructs its contemporary adepts how to be waiting when they do.
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As Divola notes, “Being here is a practical consideration—it’s very inexpensive, convenient, clean, and air conditioned.”
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Crucially, this exhibition undermines a tendency to canonize Blossfeldt exclusively as a modernist art photographer.
Smalley's distance from photography allows him to approach broader ontological questions: What is an image? How do images circulate within the technologies of contemporary culture?
