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Khan Academy: Sarah Meister | Seeing Through Photographs Instructional VideoKhan Academy: Sarah Meister | Seeing Through Photographs Instructional Video
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Khan Academy: Sarah Meister | Seeing Through Photographs

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Curator Sarah Meister takes us through a range of documentary photographs from early in photography's history to the present day in this video. [3:20] Although we often make a direct parallel between a photograph's subject and its meaning, Meister explains that a picture is rarely a perfect reproduction of the real world.

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