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Three nuns in full habit and headdress pause to smoke cigarettes in this candid black and white photograph from 1931, captured in sharp documentary detail. The composition balances formality and irreverence, their figures emerging from deep shadow against a stark architectural backdrop, creating an unexpected tension between sacred vocation and casual human pleasure. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.