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FOR MIDCENTURY READERS of American style magazines, the work of photographer couple Leslie Gill and Frances McLaughlin-Gill would have been a familiar sight. Gill’s precisely shot configurations of food, objects and people often filled the pages of Harper’s Bazaar and others. McLaughlin-Gill, 11 years his junior, was Vogue’s first contracted female photographer, with a knack for turning American socialites and models like Gloria Vanderbilt and Sunny Harnett into icons of postwar chic. Now their moment has returned in Lives & Still Lives: Leslie Gill, Frances McLaughlin-Gill, and Their Circle, at New York’s…