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NEW: Smithsonian Magazine on Frances Benjamin Johnston (May 2010)

Frances Benjamin Johnston, Self Portrait, ca. 1900

Smithsonian Magazine: Cindy Sherman (March 2009)

Book Review in The Common Review (winter 2009) (PDF)

Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood: “Once More Over the Bridge, May 24, 2008″

Smithsonian Magazine: Robert Howlett

Smithsonian Magazine: Eadweard Muybridge (PDF)

San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner: “Modestly Modern”

Smithsonian Magazine: Julia Margaret Cameron (PDF)

Salon: “Jane Eyre to Go” (November 13, 1998)

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    These Close Readings are designed to model ways of writing about art based on my work with college students. As with textual close readings, reading images requires moving from evidence to idea -- or from description to interpretation. This movement is the basic building block of critical thinking and writing.
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