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Pioneers of Digital Photography

Date
1998

Pioneers of Digital Photography at Open Space Gallery. Curator: Mary Ross. July 8 - August 11, 1998.

Works by Peer Bode, Nancy Burson, Walter Chappell, Larry Gartel, Carl Geiger, Robert Heinecken, William Larson, Graham Nash, Nam June Paik, Sheila Pinkel, Mary Ross, Sonia Sheridan, Howard Sochurek, Mary Jo Toles, Woody Vasulka, Joan Truckenbrod, Julius Vitali, Linda White.

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Pioneers of Digital Photography was an exhibition at Open Space Gallery curated by Mary Ross from July 8 to August 11, 1998. The show presented works by Peer Bode, Nancy Burson, Walter Chappell, Larry Gartel, Carl Geiger, Robert Heinecken, William Larson, Graham Nash, Nam June Paik, Sheila Pinkel, Mary Ross, Sonia Sheridan, Howard Sochurek, Mary Jo Toles, Woody Vasulka, Joan Truckenbrod, Julius Vitali and Linda White.

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