Shoebox memories
A new exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts explores unclaimed snapshots from the past
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(Image credit: (Gift of Peter J. Cohen/Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston))

(Image credit: (Gift of Peter J. Cohen/Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston))

(Image credit: (Gift of Peter J. Cohen/Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)Unfinished Stories also draws strong parallels between its historic snapshots and modern-day images and their vernacular. In one c)

(Image credit: (Gift of Peter J. Cohen/Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)The exhibition also underscores how physical photographs were once saved — a practice that has fallen out of vogue as we store all)
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