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        "tombstone": "My Ghost: For Allegra, 2014. Adam Fuss (British, b. 1961). Daguerreotype; plate: 59.7 x 96.5 cm (23 1/2 x 38 in.); framed: 73 x 109.9 x 4.4 cm (28 3/4 x 43 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Alma Kroeger Fund, 2018.297. \u00a9 Adam Fuss",
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        "measurements": "Plate: 59.7 x 96.5 cm (23 1/2 x 38 in.); Framed: 73 x 109.9 x 4.4 cm (28 3/4 x 43 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)",
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                    "title": "Stories from Storage",
                    "description": "<i>Stories from Storage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).",
                    "opening_date": "2021-02-06T05:00:00"
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                {
                    "description": "<em>Adam Fuss, Circumambulation. </em>Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (December 26, 2014-February 6, 2015).",
                    "opening_date": "2014-12-26T00:00:00"
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                {
                    "description": "<em>Retro-spective: Analog Photography in a Digital World. </em>Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL (September 24, 2016-January 8, 2017).",
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                "date": "December 3, 2018",
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        "did_you_know": "To distract himself from a romantic breakup, Adam Fuss decided to make the world\u2019s largest daguerreotype.",
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        "description": "This depiction of the Taj Mahal\u2014a monument to a lost love\u2014was produced in 2014 but is based on an 1864 view by British photographer John Murray. Fuss scanned and photoshopped Murray\u2019s paper negative to produce his own homage to a lost love, using one of the oldest photographic processes, the daguerreotype. It is Fuss's monument to his lost love, Allegra.",
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                "citation": "Fuss, Adam, and W. E. Begley. Adam Fuss: Circumambulation. 2015.",
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            {
                "citation": "Tannenbaum, Barbara. \u201cAcquisitions 2018: Photography.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>vol. 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 24-25.",
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