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"title": "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"did_you_know": "At the start of the 20th century, the Grand Canyon was already a famous destination for tourists.",
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"description": "\u201cThou vast, profound, primeval hiding-place / Of ancient secrets,\u201d wrote Henry Van Dyke in 1913 in his poem The Grand Canyon. Made a decade later, William E. Dassonville\u2019s photograph conveys a similar awe at this national landmark\u2019s grandeur, mystery, and power. In a shrewd composition that masterfully takes advantage of natural light, Dassonville emphasized the depth and breadth of the canyon by setting a white outcropping in the foreground against a dark shadow that slices the rectangular image in half diagonally. To its right, a sunbathed vista of cliffs and valleys takes our eye into deep, deep space.",
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"biography": "William E. Dassonville American, 1879-1957\r\n\r\nWilliam Dassonville (born in Sacramento) was a pictorial photographer active in San Francisco during the first two decades of the 20th century. In addition to the pictorial work he produced for exhibition, Dassonville operated a professional portrait studio. A member of the California Camera Club, he gave lectured on art photography and contributed articles to Camera Craft, a photographic journal affiliated with the club. He exhibited his work in the first three San Francisco Photographic Salons (1901-3), as well as in other salons in Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago.\r\n\tAfter losing all of his work in the 1906 earthquake, Dassonville left San Francisco for the Sierra Nevada. He later returned to the city, reestablishing his studio and exhibiting his photographs made in the mountains. In the early 1920s he began making photographic paper for his own use and in 1924 gave up his studio to concentrate on the manufacture of \"Dassonville\" paper. M.M.",
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