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(On the same page, Mr. Coplans, one assumes, insinuates the pedigree of Ms. Benglis’s action by including an uncaptioned photograph of the Comtesse de Castiglione, the 19th-century French beauty who may have been the first woman to self-consciously orchestrate images of herself for the camera, from pose to attire to maquillage.)

2009 July 25, Roberta Smith, “Art or Ad or What? It Caused a Lot of Fuss”, in New York Times