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This article appeared in the January 31, 2005 edition of The Nation.

January 13, 2005

BUT IS IT ART?

Hidden Valley Lake, Calif.

The January 3 cover defaces a great photograph of a farm worker mother and child by Dorothea Lange. There are enough contemporary Wal-Mart workers and photographers covering their situation to use an appropriate image and not insult one of our greatest photographers.

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About Jonathan Steele

Jonathan Steele is the Guardian's senior foreign correspondent. This is an adaptation of an article that first appeared in the Guardian. more...
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