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Episode 1: Dijkstra / Botticelli
Reflections: Then & Now
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What does the Roman goddess of love have in common with a teenage girl in a lime green swimming costume? Ben Street explores the unlikely relationship between Botticelli’s ‘The Birth of Venus’ and Rineke Dijkstra’s photograph ‘Kolobrzeg, Poland, July 26, 1992’.
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