title: Contemporary Photography and the Garden: Deceits and Fantasies
author:  Thomas Padon 
description: Thomas Padon is a Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs at the American Federation of Arts, where he has organized many major exhibitions, among them, <i>Eternal Egypt: Masterpieces of Ancient Art from The British Museum</i>; <i>Degas and the Dance</i>; and <i>Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective</i>. He was also the curator of the touring exhibition <i>Nancy Graves: Excavations in Print</i> (1966), for which he wrote the accompanying catalogue raisonn, and <i>Shadows in the Floating World: Silhouette in Ukiyo-e Prints</i> (1990) presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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