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    Book Review: Welcome to the Jungle–Maya Ruins Revisited, by William Frej

    Rephotography—projects that seek out the tripod holes of past photographers to reshoot the same images of the same thing, in the same place, maybe at the same time—have their fascinations but, in the end, impart lessons on the same general theme: Man is bad. Man is bad because man tears…

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    February 8, 2021
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