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Erin Barnett
Erin Barnett is the Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the International Center of Photography and has curated several exhibitions on 19th-century photography.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Lee …
Victorian Mothers Hid Themselves in Their Babies’ Photos
Nearly 200 years before the selfie, women went to imaginative lengths to stay invisible.
Alicia Yin Cheng
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Erin Barnett
May 10, 2020