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        "tombstone": "The Film, 1930. Herman Bekman (German, b. 1906). Gelatin silver print; image: 29.8 x 23.9 cm (11 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2007.29",
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        "title": "The Film",
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                "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \"8 stuk\" and \"BOVEA\"",
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                "inscription": "Black stamp on verso of print: \"ATELIER BEKMANI Fotografie-Fotohandel/Heutszingel 19/Coevorden\"",
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                    "title": "Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography",
                    "description": "<i>Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).",
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                "description": "(Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Sep. 15, 2001, no. 35)",
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                "description": "David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY",
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        "description": "Bekman was a professional photographer who shot everything from advertising images, nature scenes, and portraits to fine art images. Here he transforms one of the mundane tools of his trade\u2014the metal reel and celluloid guide strip from a developing tank for 35 mm roll film\u2014into a dramatic abstraction. References to the nature or practice of photography are a common motif in work of this era.",
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014.",
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