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Platt D. Babbitt, Niagara Falls from Prospect Point, c. 1855, 13.5 x 18.6 cm. Gift of Phyllis Lambert (Montreal, 1988), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo: NGC
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Employing an unexpected technique, Spring Hurlbut spreads thin layers of human or animal ash across a black surface, then photographs the resulting composition.
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Eriko Kimura, curator of Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography, shares stories behind a selection of photographs from the exhibition, from a present-day perspective.
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