# @gettyimages on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CX12cm_Nlxo
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16444980-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-12-23T22:03:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

"I wanted not a window on the world but the world itself" ⁠
Author and essayist Joan Didion, who has died aged 87.⁠
An astute observer of American life, related in concise but highly-distinctive prose, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 and received the National Medal of Arts in 2013.⁠
For more coverage, follow our bio link.⁠
📷: Steve Pyke/Hulton Archive/Getty Images I 2006 I pyke.eye I gettyarchive I #GettyImages #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive⁠
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#joandidion #stevepyke #americanliterature #letmetellyouwhatimean #thewhitealbum #slouchingtowardsbethlehem #theyearofmagicalthinking⁠
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stevepyke, theyearofmagicalthinking, letmetellyouwhatimean, thewhitealbum, preservingthepast, joandidion, gettyimages, americanliterature, gettyarchive, slouchingtowardsbethlehem

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