History Re-purposed - Constructed Photographic Images

The series "History Re-Purposed" demonstrates that unmediated history does not exist. Wittingly or not, people reshape the past to fit the present. Such revision occurs because history does not exist as pure undigested fact, but is rather both embedded in media and embodied in places and people.
Portraits (Female Adult #1), 1998
carbon print
image size, 9 9/16 x 7 9/16"
edition 8
1 of 11
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