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Sojourner Truth paved way for today's Lindsay Lohans

Long before Andy Warhol predicted that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, Sojourner Truth played a bit part in controlling her image and launching the current appetite for photos of celebrities.

"Fame and photography really take root in the 19th Century," said Jane Aspinwall, assistant curator of photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. "People in the 19th Century were just as interested in celebrities and collecting celebrity portraiture as we are today."

"In the Public Eye: Photography and Fame," an exhibit of photographs, is on display in the museum's new Bloch Building through June 15. It is made up of about 50 photographs from the Nelson-Atkins private collection and highlights the strange journey famous people and their audiences embarked on more than a century ago.
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