"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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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."
Mia Fineman
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Mia Fineman
Curator, Department of Photographs
Curator, Department of Photographs
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Adam Fuss
1992