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January 5, 2014

Capturing Imagination

Each week, John Foster shares with Design Observer readers his curated discoveries from various online resources. Foster spends hours mining digital collections at museums and hundreds of other sources for objects of interest and curiosity that present the kind of high design and graphic qualities he thinks readers will enjoy. Presented here are his top ten galleries of 2013.



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By John Foster

John Foster and his wife, Teenuh, have been longtime collectors of self-taught art and vernacular photography. Their collection of anonymous, found snapshots has toured the country for five years and has been featured in Harper’s, Newsweek Online and others.

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