Photographers:
Connections:

Hands


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Parts of the body: Hands
Helpings hands
2The "helping hand", "hidden mother" and "hidden father" portraits
X-rays
3X-rays of the hand
Photographers
4Southworth and Hawes: The Branded Hand of Captain Jonathan Walker
5Imogen Cunningham: Hands
6Germaine Krull: Hands
7Rena Small: Artist's Hands

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