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ABOUT THE ESSAY
Full of BeautiesOn Places, photographs by Ken McCown, focusing on fragments of contemporary buildings and public art and on natural landscapes from California to New Zealand to Korea.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ken McCown is director of the Downtown Design Center at the School of Architecture at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada.More Bio >>
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