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Photography Changes What We Want
Photography powerfully shapes our needs and expresses desire. Images and commentaries examine photography’s role in advertising, beauty, celebrity, consumer culture, entertainment, evidence, fashion, food, imagination, privacy, public relations, real estate, sex, spectacle, style, and truth.
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![The Underwood Travel System, Catalog No. 28 [p. 4 illustration: Man holding stereoscope, pointing to Egypt on a large globe : line drawing, ca. 1907.]](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=185&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/underwood/AC0143-0000001B.jpg)
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