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We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

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Beaumont Newhall
Age: 84 †
Born: 1908
Born: June 22
Died: 1993
Died: February 26
Art Historian
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Curator
Exhibition Curator
Journalist
Librarian
Photographer
Photography Historian
Writer
Lynn
Massachusetts
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