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Elinor Carucci

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli-american photographer”. Today it says “israeli-born american photographer and educator”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Israeli-American Fine Art Photographer”. It now reads “Israeli-American photographer (born 1971)”.
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Elinor Carucci ( Hebrew : אלינור קרוצ'י ; born 1971) is an Israeli-American photographer and educator, living in New York City, noted for her intimate porayals of her family's lives. She has published five monographs; Closer (2002), Diary of a Dancer (2005), Mother (2013, Midlife (2019) and The Collars of RBG (2023). She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Carucci's work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art , Jewish Museum and Brooklyn Museum in New York, Houston Museum of Fine Arts , and Harwood Museum of Art in New Mexico. The Guardian . 2015-09-30 .

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli-american photographer”. Today it says “israeli-born american photographer and educator”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Israeli-American Fine Art Photographer”. It now reads “Israeli-American photographer (born 1971)”. Read the current article and compare.
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israeli-american photographer

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israeli-born american photographer and educator

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