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Frederick Sommer
Lee Nevin with Violin, 1963

"Lee Nevin with Violin", 1963. © Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation.
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Introduction
Through the deliberate and masterful use of complete optical blur (the "out-of-focus" technique), Frederick Sommer radically subverts the ontological expectation of the photographic medium, which is traditionally bound to documentary sharpness and the faithful reproduction of reality.
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