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According to the artist, “Looking at everything as if for the first time reveals the commonplace to be utterly incredible.” This sense of wonder may also have been a reaction to changing societal conditions, for these 1930s photographs of  industrially produced commodities—whether straws, pins, or Life Savers—picture a world increasingly overtaken by stuff. Characterized by patterning and  repetition, Bernhard’s arrangements seem to emerge from the seriality of mass production. 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