Word: aestheticizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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or "The Aesthetic Reversal of Depression on Commuter Trains: Before-and-After Muscle-Tension Studies on Ten Depressed Commuters Reading a Book about Depressed Commuters on a Train,"
But it becomes apparent that the organization is no profit-making enterprise. George B. Field, director of the Center, says instead that the work is "a manifestation of that inquisitive, aesthetic, adventurous side of the human spirit." Below Field's office a grey-haired adventurer wanders distractedly through the Center...
The same principles which organize the themes of the film (the unreliability of appearances, the danger of predetermined values, anticipation turned on its head) also structure the arrangement of shots. Goretta falsifies not only our narrative expectations, but our aesthetic ones as well.
That such factual and technically pure photography would be taken as "high art" 70 years ago was not to be expected. Hine did not care. As Alan Trachtenberg points out in his excellent catalogue essay, "Ellis Island represented the opening American act of one of the most remarkable dramas in...
Some surgeons contend that there is a possibility, admittedly slight, that the radiation itself could cause future cancer. They argue, as the British Medical Journal recently said, that "cure is more important than contour." Yet Pierquin insists that for certain women between the ages of 40 and 50, there are...