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Northshore October 2025
Valerie Belin: Made Up on view from October 17, 2009 through January 18, 2010 Is a portrait still a portrait if the sitter is not real? This October, the Peabody Essex Museum presents French photographer Valerie Belin's first one-person show in the United States. Belin is an artist as famous for the unsettling qualities of her floor-to-ceiling photographs as she is for her provocative subjects. Well-recognized in the past for her portrait series of Michael Jackson impersonators, body builders, lapdogs and showgirls, Belin delves deep into a subject of fascination compelling viewers to probe the sublime quality of even the most familiar things
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