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        "tombstone": "Gypsies: Bohemia, 1963, printed 1968\u201369. Josef Koudelka (Czech, 1938-). Gelatin silver print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Joan Liftin, 2022.311",
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        "title": "Bohemia",
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        "creation_date": "1963, printed 1968\u201369",
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        "technique": "gelatin silver print",
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        "department": "Photography",
        "collection": "PH - Czech",
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                "description": "Josef Koudelka (the artist) [1938-], given to Joan Liftin",
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                "date": "1968\u201369",
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                "description": "Joan Liftin [1935-], New York, NY, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "1968 or 1969-2022",
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                "date": "December 5, 2022-",
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        "did_you_know": "Josef Koudelka\u2019s photos of the Roma were initially signed P.P. or Prague Photographer, for fear of governmental reprisals against the artist and his family.",
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        "description": "Koudelka began photographing the Roma of his native Czechoslovakia, or Gypsies as they were known at the time, in 1961 and continued for a decade. This was a personal undertaking, intended to preserve the vanishing culture of a group targeted for assimilation. This image, taken in Bohemia in western Czechoslovakia, suggests both assimilation\u2014in the form of a settled residence instead of nomadic life, a rather elegant couch, and a besuited young man\u2014and, in his wild grin as he smokes a cigar, the independence of the Roma spirit.",
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        "creditline": "Gift of Joan Liftin",
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        "date_text": "1963, printed 1968\u201369",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:54:24.449000"
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