What can this photograph teach us about love?

"When you are truly in love and then you lose it, you feel like you’re being emptied out."

"When you are truly in love and then you lose it, you feel like you're being emptied out."

Curator Mia Fineman on a large-scale photogram by Adam Fuss.

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Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world. Each episode is interpreted by a Museum photographer.

Photography by Karin L. Willis

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"Bleeding Hearted Blues," originally released 1923. Written by Lovie Austin, performed by Bessie Smith. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment. Under license from Sony Music Commercial Music Group, a division of Sony Music Entertainment.

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Mia Fineman
Curator, Department of Photographs

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