Photography is exorcism of our times. Primitive society has its mask, petty bourgeois society with its mirror, and we have our picture.

摄影是我们时代的驱邪术。原始社会有它的面具，小资社会有它的镜子，而我们有我们的图片。

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Besides, "it is a thrill unique to a market society to find that people are willing to pay for one's product," writes Deirdre McCloskey in her latest book, "The Bourgeois Virtues".

另外，“发现人们愿意购买自己的产品是市场社会独有的兴奋感。”迪尔德丽·麦克洛斯基在她的新书《世俗的美德》写道。

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The Bauhaus school, led by German architect Walter Gropius from 1919, worked to do away with the ornamentation and pretenses of bourgeois society.

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Their desire to evoke the "primitive" and, therefore, the "authentic, " was as much perhaps even more a challenge to the constraints of bourgeois society as a challenge to traditional aesthetic values.

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He also knew the French Impressionists' paintings of expansive avenues, exquisite vistas and elegant bourgeois society that marked the stunning transformation of Napoleon III's Paris into a gleaming, modern metropolis.

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