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The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.

Lucy R. Lippard

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Lucy R. Lippard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 14
Activist
Art Critic
Art Historian
Art Theorist
Curator
Exhibition Curator
Journalist
Writer
New York City
New York
Lucy Lippard
Lucy Rowland Lippard
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Domination
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