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The MFA continues its 50th anniversary celebration with its most expansive survey of photography to date. Approximately 200 images are featured in Five Decades of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, featuring The Dandrew-Drapkin Collection, from Saturday, June 20-Sunday, October 4. Many were gifts from Ludmila and Bruce Dandrew and Chitranee and Dr. Robert L. Drapkin, whose donations between 2009 and 2012 elevated the collection to an entirely new level. Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator Jennifer Hardin, who has worked tirelessly to enhance these holdings, has organized the exhibition and will present a Gallery Talk on Sunday, June 21, at 3 p.m. The photographers represented read like a “Who’s Who” in the art form: Henry Fox Talbot, Édouard Baldus, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Julia Margaret Cameron, Margaret Bourke-White, Berenice Abbott, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Edward Steichen, Brassaï, Lewis Hine, Walke

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