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    In the Frame of the Father

    Dec 01, 2022 1 minute

    n 1981, when Darrel Ellis (19581992) was a young artist in search of a style, he received a present that would change his life: an extensive archive of photographic negatives that had belonged to the father he’d never known. Thomas Ellis, a postal clerk and former U.S. Marine, was killed by two off-duty police officers in 1958, when

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