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role that photography played in Homer’s art

A revelatory exploration of Winslow Homer’s engagement with photography

Professor of English and Cinema Studies

Despite his accomplishments

The Deceivers — Briefel Bowdoin Alumni Infant's diaper shirt with BOWDOINBy Aviva BriefelProfessor of English and Cinema Studies The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the past. This rise had profound repercussions on notions of selfhood and national identity within and outside the realm of art. Although art critics denounced forgery for its affront to artistic traditions,