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Non-canonical photography


 
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Moving beyond the "great masters." Explore the fascinating, overlooked, and outsider images that exist outside the traditional art history narrative but are essential to our visual heritage.

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Look Beyond.

Contents

The issues with a canon
1Non-canonical photography
Examples
2Non-canonical examples
Stepping outside the canon
3Real photo postcards: African Americans
4Photobooth portraits
5The Roz Leibowitz Collection: Snapshot Disasters
6Photograph album - An Unknown Street Photographer in Paris (1896)
7American mugshots
8New South Wales. Police Dept.
9The Holocaust: Women concentration camp guards
10Photographic passes for international exhibitions
11Paper and waxed paper negatives

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