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A picture, says David Hockney, is the only way that we can communicate what we see. Here, in a collaboration with art cr

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English Year 2016

A History of Pictures
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Most of us hardly ever think about those ubiquitous things that hang—along with wreaths, light fixtures, and the occasio

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A picture-rich field guide to American photography, from daguerreotype to digital. We are all photographers now, with

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A picture-rich field guide to American photography, from daguerreotype to digital. We are all photographers now, with ca

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The first filmed prizefight, Veriscope's Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) became one of cinema's first major a

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From the days of its colonial glory, Philadelphia has had an important place in the history of American health care. In

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Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas---not least the idea of the power of vis

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Theories of film have traditionally dealt with either narrative or industrial issues, with the consequence that the phys

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