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Photographer Patrick Faigenbaum made a splash in the mid-1980s with his restrained, almost sculptural portraits of Italian aristocracy in the palatial surroundings of their ancestral homes. On Saturday, the first North American survey of Faigenbaum’s work opened at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

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Avenue Vinohradská, Prague, 1994Patrick Faigenbaum

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Fatou Mata Niakate, Paris, 2004Patrick Faigenbaum

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Famille Frescobaldi, Florence, 1984—2010Patrick Faigenbaum

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Dr. Karel Cerny, Prague, 1994Patrick Faigenbaum

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A detail from Citrons, SantulussurgiuPatrick Faigenbaum

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Raphael et Salvatorica, Santulussurgiu, 2003.Patrick Faigenbaum

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