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"title": "Year in Review for 1984",
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"description": "CMA, April 3 - May 5, 1985: \"Year in Review 1984,\" CMA Bulletin, 72 (April 1985), p. 201, no. 40, repr. p. 193.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1984.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 2 (April 1985): 163\u2013207.",
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