The artist’s photographs of a masked Arthur Rimbaud touring New York offer timely insights about visibility and resistance.

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He works in mysterious ways.

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. He worked as a surgeon on a ...

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