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• Elliott Erwitt, acclaimed American photographer, dies at 95

  30-11-2023 22:42
  
  The photographer’s storied career included defining pictures of Marilyn Monroe, Richard Nixon and a host of dogsElliott Erwitt, the photographer of American life, political history, starlets and humor, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan, his daughter Sasha confirmed to the New York Times. He was 95.Over a remarkably varied, peripatetic career spanning more than 70 years, Erwitt captured numerous famous images, ranging from the somber (Jacqueline Kennedy clutching the flag from her h
  
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• John Akomfrah: Arcadia review – celebration of Mayflower overwhelms the senses

  30-11-2023 17:31
  
  The Box, Plymouth
  Akomfrah, who is set to represent Great Britain at next year’s Venice Biennale, tackles conquest, plague and death with this five-screen installation. But there is too much going on to concentrateThe arrival of Christopher Columbus and the conquistadors in the Americas led to the destruction of empires and civilisations and the deaths of millions in the new world – not by war, but from the waves of diseases that travelled from the old world to the new. Human contact
  
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