One Life: Sylvia Plath National Portrait Gallery
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“One Life: Sylvia Plath” is the first exploration of the poet and writer’s life in an art and history museum. The exhibition reveals how Plath shaped her identity visually as she came of age as a writer in the 1950s. Image: Sylvia Plath by Rollie McKenna / 1959 (printed later), Gelatin silver print / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Rollie McKenna © Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation, courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona Foundation
One Life: Sylvia Plath, Revisited
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Smith By Smithies — Sylvia Plath Exhibit at the National Portrait
One Life: Sylvia Plath, Revisited
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The Creative Tension Between Vitality and Fatality: Illuminating
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Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the
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Sylvia Plath: her life in art and photographs – in pictures
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A New Smithsonian Exhibition Highlights Sylvia Plath's Visual
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Sylvia Plath at the Lilly Library, Indiana University
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One Life: Sylvia Plath. Courtesy of National Portrait Gallery
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Sylvia Plath we Should Meet in Another Life, Me and You. Quote
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Portrait of a Poet
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One Life: Sylvia Plath National Portrait Gallery
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Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar' and Her College Thesis - The Atlantic