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        "tombstone": "Video Site Documentation: Lexus Fire Pit Site, Sonoran Desert, Arizona, U.S.A.\r\n, 1985. Patrick Nagatani (American, 1945\u20132017). Chromogenic (Fujicolor Crystal Archive) print; image: 18.1 x 23.9 cm (7 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.); paper: 20.2 x 25.3 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos, 2012.337. \u00a9 Patrick Nagatani",
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        "title": "Video Site Documentation: Lexus Fire Pit Site, Sonoran Desert, Arizona, U.S.A.\r\n",
        "creation_date": "1985",
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            "male",
            "Asian American"
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            "America"
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        "technique": "chromogenic (Fujicolor Crystal Archive) print",
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        "department": "Photography",
        "collection": "PH - American 1951-Present",
        "type": "Photograph",
        "measurements": "Image: 18.1 x 23.9 cm (7 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.3 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Patrick Nagatani",
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            {
                "inscription": "Written in black marker in bottom margin of recto: \"LEXUS FIRE PIT SITE, SONORAN DESERT, ARIZONA, U.S.A. 1985/2001 22/30 PATRICK NAGATANI (signed)\"",
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                {
                    "id": 203510,
                    "title": "Constructed Identities",
                    "description": "<i>Constructed Identities</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 14, 2014-April 26, 2015).",
                    "opening_date": "2014-12-14T00:00:00"
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                "description": "Unknown before acquisition by George Stephanopoulos.",
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        "description": "Which is more useful to humanity: fact or myth, science or faith? This question is central to the saga imagined and brought to life by Nagatani of the archeological explorations led by the artist\u2019s alter ego, Japanese scientist Ryoichi. Traveling the globe between 1985 and 2000, Ryoichi\u2019s team locates and documents 13 of 30 archeological sites, each of which contains a remarkably well-preserved, low-mileage automobile that must have been buried there centuries earlier. Photographs, stills from video documentation, artifacts, and pages from Ryoichi\u2019s journal serve as scientific \"proof\" that time may not be linear. \"If fiction has given more to us than fact, then this is the greatest truth,\" writes Ryoichi/Nagatani in his journal at the thirteenth and final site.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80078344"
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        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Tannenbaum, Barbara. \"Constructed Identities: A new exhibition explores photography's power to create a persona.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 55, no. 1 (January/February 2015): 6-7.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 6; Mentioned: p. 7",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2015-01"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Fensom, Sarah E. \"I.D., Please: An Eclectic Exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art Focuses on the Way Photorgraphers Both Establish and Subvert their Subjects' Identities.\" Art &amp; Antiques 38, no. 2 (February 2015): 64-68.",
                "page_number": "65",
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        "creditline": "Gift of George Stephanopoulos",
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        "accession_date": "2012-12-03T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1985,
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:18.609000"
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