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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
Barbara Kruger
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Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
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Newark
New Jersey
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