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Alfredo Boulton

Alfredo Boulton had multiple lives. The Venezuelan photographer, art critic, historian, collector, and publisher was born into a wealthy Caracas family in 1908. As a teenager, he studied and traveled in Europe, where he met avant-garde artists who would shape his vision—and the trajectory of modern art in Venezuela. Boulton is “shockingly underrecognized outside of his home country,” notes the curator Idurre Alonso. But that’s likely to change with Alonso’s exhibition , drawn from the Getty’s acquisition of

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