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on your first membership payment. For decades, Palm Springs was seen as a resort town, a getaway

destination. It was a second home for stars like Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, and Bob Hope, who found an escape from the voracious appetites of the gossip columns and celebrity magazines.

Yet, it's also defined by weather, architecture, and a more leisurely way of life.

Nancy Barron has created three bodies of work, focusing on contemporary life in Palm Springs.

They include a community that lives and celebrates an idealized way of life from decades past.

Her images reveal the American pension for reinvention and the desire to make

myth more fact than fiction. This is Ibarian X and welcome back to the Candid Frame.

Well, thank you for making time for me today. I really enjoyed meeting you, and I've really enjoyed

learning even more about you and your work since the last time we chatted.

Of course. Thank you so much for having me and for your interest in my work.

Yeah, it's, it gave me a perspective of

Palm Springs that I never really had. I mean, I've only been there once, which was more sort of

in passing. I've known this I've known the town more out of reputation than than anything else.

So it was really kind of interesting to have this sort of be a way for me to kind of dig a little

in terms of learning more about the town, the history of the town.

But particularly this visual aspect is something that's always been a prominent aspect of the town's sort of reputation.

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