The card interests me not only for its Addams family aesthetic, but also because it may help reignite a fading tradition.

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Today, the dance is a cultural and aesthetic event, connecting townspeople to their agricultural heritage, to Japan's tradition of reliance on rice, and to a group identity transmitted across centuries through folk performance.

UNESCO: Culture

Having grown up when photography was just being recognized as an art form, the French-born Cartier-Bresson was perhaps being an aesthetic contrarian, the anti-Stieglitz and un-Steichen, resisting the soft-focus tradition of those photographers that often conferred a romantic mist on their subjects.

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