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                    "title": "From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression",
                    "description": "<i>From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-December 31, 2017).",
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        "description": "Both of these images explore the relationship between the three- and two-dimensional worlds and, while remaining representational, emphasize each building\u2019s abstract qualities. Best known as a painter, but also a draftsman, printmaker, filmmaker, and photographer. Crawford focused on the rural architecture of Pennsylvania and Delaware in the mid-1930s. The 18th-century adobe church of San Francisco de Assisi in Rancho de Taos, New Mexico, was an icon of pure form for modernist artists from Georgia O\u2019Keeffe and Ansel Adams to Paul Strand, who spent summers in Taos from 1930 to 1932. Ansel Adams also chose this view of the back with its sculptural buttresses, stating that \u201cit is the rear elevation that defines this building as one of the great architectural monuments of America.\u201d",
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