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MATERIALS ANDPROCESSES:THE AGGREGATEIMAGE

 

 

“THE PHOTOGRAPH IS NOT A PICTURE OF SOMETHING BUT IS AN OBJECT ABOUT SOMETHING.”—ROBERT HEINECKEN

 

PHOTOGRAPH © MYRA GREENE, Untitled, from her series Character Recognition; 3″ × 4″ black glass plate Ambrotype.

 

 

How many Americans, in particular those interested in U.S. history, have read the Declaration of Independence (or the Bill of Rights or the Constitution) in a textbook, online, or in any other publication? If you are moved by the words in this influential document, how much more so would the words affect you if you gazed upon the actual, hand-written object (housed in the Rotunda of the ...

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