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The Keeper Frame
One photographer, one picture they kept, and the whole roll around it. Each week two hosts tell the true story behind a single photograph: the life of the person who made it, the frames on either side of it, the ones that got cut, and the twist the caption never told you. Some episodes follow the legends and some follow ordinary working photographers from the archive, and every episode ends with one plain idea about seeing that you can take to your next shoot. Every claim checked using FactUnion's fact-checking process; every source is in the episode notes.
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Episodes
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The Frame Behind the Hole
In the 1930s Roy Stryker's office punched holes through the government photographs it rejected. Years later, Ben Shahn went looking for one of those rejects because he needed it, and found it destroyed.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Make the Good Pile
Garry Winogrand died with about 300,000 frames he never saw, and curators chose his keepers for him. The awkward part is that other people often chose them while he was alive, too.
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She Didn't Ask My Name
Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother' turns ninety: the frames around the famous close-up, the photographer's memory, and the woman in the picture telling her own side.
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