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During the next year, several other large exhibitions in Chicago will treat aspects of the history of photography. Here, in order of appearance, are the major offerings:

– ”The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the Eighties.” A survey of the works of younger photographers who explore the myth of photography as factual documentation. Museum of Contemporary Art, Nov. 4-Jan. 28, 1990.

– ”Early American Photography: The First 50 Years.” A traveling show from the George Eastman House examining the works of pioneers who sought to define the new medium. Terra Museum of American Art, May 5-July 8, 1990.

– ”The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars, Ford Motor Company Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” The innovations and revelations of European and American Modernist photographers in the early 20th Century. Art Institute, Sept. 15-Dec. 2, 1990.