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[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.
Dennis Oppenheim
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Dennis Oppenheim
Age: 73 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 1
Died: 2011
Died: January 22
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Drawer
Land Artist
Performance Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Electric City
Washington
Dennis A. Oppenheim
Photograph
Communication
Necessary
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Residue
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Vanished
Art
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Photographs
Radical
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