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CHAPEL HILL - Most of us aren’t painters or sculptors. Only a tiny handful of people make pottery or create jewelry or weave fabric art.

But we are almost all, in one way or another, photographers. We snap photos of our families and our pets, take shots on vacations, record one holiday gathering after another. Rare is the baby whose wrinkled little face isn’t immortalized on film (or, nowadays, in a digital file).

That ubiquity, which is more pervasive than ever now that our telephones and computers are also cameras, is one of the things that sets photography apart from most other forms of art.

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