THE NEW YORK TIMES: Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Photographer of Dreamlike Tableaux,
Dies at 82
November 27, 2025 - Penelope Green
Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, a photographer who made witty and surreal tableaux that she captured with a pinhole camera — “environmental collages,” she called them — evoking and transfiguring the romantic travel photography of the 19th century, died on Oct. 27 at a hospice facility in Philadelphia. She was 82.
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