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“We knew very little about these photographs – the circumstances, how many there were, who took them, you name it – until Billy Klüver set for himself this project of trying to figure it all out. He did a forensic investigation of the photographs and discovered that they were taken by Jean Cocteau of his friends Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani et cetera. It’s a true detective story about photography.” Read more...
The best books on Photography and Reality
Errol Morris, Film Director
Our most recommended books
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Ways of Seeing
by John Berger -
The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari -
The Self-Aware Image: An Insight Into Early Modern Meta-Painting
by Victor Stoichita -
Effie in Venice
by Mary Lutyens -
Nudity: A Cultural Anatomy
by Ruth Barcan -
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
by Leo Steinberg
