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When your art becomes unintentional historical record

My photography captured the downtown before they tore it all down and now the historical society wants to buy my prints but I feel like I am selling pictures of a funeral.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Creative work sometimes preserves worlds that disappear, making the artist an accidental historian of loss.

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“Where Are You with Work as legacy — when the work outlasts you?”

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