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Gregor Sailer's "Potemkin Villages" | CNN

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Gregor Sailer's "Potemkin Villages" series captures entirely fake villages and towns erected around the world, from Sweden and China to the United States.

Visual arts Russia See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Threads Link Copied! Follow Editor’s Note: Linde B. Lehtinen is assistant curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). This is an edited excerpt from “The Potemkin Village,” a book of photography by Gregor Sailer. Gregor Sailer makes work that challenges our understanding of what it means to encounter authenticity and illusion within photography. Starting in June 2015, he traveled to Russia, Sweden, Germany, France, England, the United States, and China to search for “fake towns” or, as he refers to them,

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