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The Figure Turned Away
Degas, 1885. A photographer you don't know, 2024. The same morning. What travels across time when everything else changes.
There is a figure in a Seurat study from the 1880s who will never look at you. His back is turned. He is absorbed in something — the water, the heat, the afternoon — that has nothing to do with being seen. One hundred and forty-three years later, a photographer whose name you may not know made an image of a figure in morning light. She is also turned away. Also absorbed. Also, entirely, herself.
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