It's All a Ruse

It's All a Ruse

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"Rodin"

"Rodin"

A Series in Fourteen Photographs

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Oct 25, 2023
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Years ago I visited the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, a sister museum to Paris’s version. But it wasn’t Rodin’s art that I was truly inspired by, it was the model and the poses and positions they put themselves in to allow Rodin to create. I left that museum thinking more about the model/s than I did about the art.

Rodin’s main model was Camille Claudel.…

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