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Photography Group
"Café Stories" Inspirations

Here are some of the images - with commentary - that inspired the Café Stories theme.

These are story-telling images. Most aren't photographs. None of them are set in a café. What makes them inspiring is how they trigger a story-telling impulse in the viewer. 

Vermeer's "Mistress and Maid"

Mistress and Maid, ca. 1664–67

Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675)
Oil on canvas
The Frick Collection, New York

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Untitled #90 (1981)

Cindy Sherman (1954–)
Chromogenic print
Art Institute of Chicago

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Nighthawks (1942)

Edward Hopper (1882–1967)
Oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

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Stamford after Brunch (2000)

John Currin (1962-)
Oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

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Dorothea and Francesca (1898)

Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942)
Oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

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