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The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984 Back to main page for this exhibition Back to images from this exhibition Laurie Simmons (American, b. 1949) Big Camera, Small Camera, 1977 Gelatin silver print; 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm) Collection of B.Z. and Michael Schwartz In Big Camera, Small Camera, Simmons shows how deeply photography permeated the inner life of her generation and how from the 1950s forward we would all have images coursing through our veins.

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