Nonetheless, the photographer, whose latest work is the subject of two upcoming shows one at the 1stdibs Gallery in the New York Design Center starting April 17, and the other opening a week earlier at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Ma.

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Twenty people already are gathered in a gymnasium-size design studio to sign off on a new model that Renault hopes to sell in eastern Europe starting in 2008.

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