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Grand Illusions: Staged Photography from the Met Collection

A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York surveys the history of staged photographs from the first 170 years of the medium.

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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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