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"Depth of Field"

For an interesting article on photography, see the September 26, 2011 issue of The New Yorker.

The piece, "Depth of Field," by Janet Malcolm about German photographer Thomas Struth, contains a mention of Eugène Atget's Paris photographs as being the "visualization of Marcel Proust." This claim is debatable. You will find the article under the heading "Annals of Art" on pages 95-103. It begins with a remarkable official photograph by Struth of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to be part of an exhibition of paintings and photographs of the Queen commemorating her Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

Read more on the topic at The New Yorker.

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