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        "tombstone": "The Day Nobody Died II, 2008. Adam Broomberg (South African, b. 1970), Oliver Chanarin (British, b. 1971). Chromogenic print, photogram, mounted on aluminum; 23 minute DVD; overall: 76.2 x 600 cm (30 x 236 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 2015.75",
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        "title": "The Day Nobody Died II",
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        "measurements": "Overall: 76.2 x 600 cm (30 x 236 1/4 in.)",
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                {
                    "id": 203110,
                    "title": "BIG: Photographs from the Collection",
                    "description": "<i>BIG: Photographs from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 12-October 9, 2016).",
                    "opening_date": "2016-06-04T04:00:00"
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                    "description": "Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, November 2009-January 2010",
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        "did_you_know": "This photograph was made without a camera and uses one of the oldest photographic technologies\u2014directly exposing photosensitive paper to light.",
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        "description": "Uncomfortable with the role that war photography plays in propagating human suffering, Broomberg and Chanarin, when they were embedded with a British Army unit during the Afghanistan War, brought a roll of photosensitive paper instead of a camera. When a press-worthy event occurred, they exposed a six-meter-long section of the paper. The results are abstract photograms, unique images created by the temperature of the light at that moment in that place. The vertical bands, unintentional artifacts of handling and processing, nonetheless resemble measures or beats\u2014space as a marker of time elapsing. The week the duo spent in Afghanistan was the deadliest week of the war thus far, but on their fifth day there, when the museum\u2019s section of paper was exposed, no one was killed.",
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