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The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.
Allan Sekula
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Allan Sekula
Age: 62 †
Born: 1951
Born: January 15
Died: 2013
Died: August 10
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Erie
Pennsylvania
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