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"description": "Photo Eye pays homage to Stankowski\u2019s teacher, photographer and graphic designer Max Burchartz, by appropriating a section of Burchartz\u2019s most famous photograph, a portrait of his wife. Staring up at his wife\u2019s eye is Burchartz himself, from a photo taken by Stankowski. Joining the two and creating an intense link between them is a dark area that contains an image of Burchartz\u2019s hairline, taken from another Stankowski photo.",
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"citation": "Tannenbaum, Barbara L. \u201cForbidden Games: The museum\u2019s Raymond collection of Surrealist and modernist photographs.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 54, no. 6 (November/December 2014): 4-6.",
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