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Photography review

Barbara Bosworth’s photographs show nature and family

Review of “Natural histories: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth” at the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem. Bosworth grew up in an Ohio town called Novelty. So much of the satisfaction offered by her new show at the Peabody Essex Museum, “Natural Histories: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth,” comes from how utterly not-novel its constituent parts are.

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