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Megan Stevenson

Megan Stevenson is a researcher and writer on photography, film, and fashion history. She recently curated an exhibition on the photography of Dorothy Wilding in Gloucester, U.K. Alongside writing for a variety of publications, she is a regular contributor for the Sisters of the Lens and Fashion Models History Instagram accounts. She is a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art (MA History of Art, 2022) and the University of Oxford (BA Archaeology and Anthropology, 2018).

Artworks Are Artifacts Too

By Megan Stevenson | August 12, 2023

Art history research can occasionally fall into the trap of viewing everything through a digital screen.

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