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Illustration by Leigh Guldig
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Elinor Carucci, 2010
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John Daniel Philips
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About Me

"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are."

-- José Ortega y Gasset, Man and Crisis, 1962 

 

I am a cultural historian interested in art & design, history & biography, signs & semiotics.

The former Director of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery,  in Washington D.C.,

I am writing a book about Emily Howland whose 19th century photograph album was acquired by the

Library of Congress and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.

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