Exhibitions: How Commercial Photography Sold the Avant-Garde
Above: F. D. Hampson, Panama Hats, from a Sloan-Force Co. Catalogue, c. 1916
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There’s nothing too special about a tube of toothpaste, a pocket comb, or a man’s wingtip shoe. But those prosaic objects are made extraordinary in the images on display in the exhibition “The Real Thing: …