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        "tombstone": "Virginia Browning, 1936. Mike Disfarmer (American, 1884\u20131959). Vintage gelatin silver print; image: 8.4 x 5.9 cm (3 5/16 x 2 5/16 in.); paper: 9.6 x 7 cm (3 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos, 2016.476",
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        "inscriptions": [
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                "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso of mount: \u201cDFGSZA175 DF1878D [crossed out] ZA\u201d\nStamped in black ink on verso of mount: \u201cORIGINAL/DISFARMER/PHOTOGRAPH\u201d\nWritten in pencil on verso of photograph: \u201cVirginia Browing\u201d\nCommercially imprinted throughout verso of paper: \u201cVELOX\u201d",
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                    "id": 299125,
                    "title": "From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression",
                    "description": "<i>From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-December 31, 2017).",
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        "description": "Disfarmer may not have considered himself an artist, but the art world quickly awarded him that status when his images were published to great acclaim in the 1970s. From 1915 to the 1950s, he operated a portrait studio in the farming community of Heber Springs, Arkansas. By the 1930s, Disfarmer had departed from commercial portrait conventions for a minimalist aesthetic. He set subjects against one of two plain backdrops, one light with taped stripes and the other plain and dark. Instead of putting his subjects at ease, he was silent and sometimes photographed from behind a wall, waiting until they became themselves. His portraits reveal not just individuals but the social reality of life in small town America through times of war, feast, famine, the Depression, and war again.",
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                "description": "Mike Disfarmer (American, 1884\u20131959)",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:44.064000"
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