Word: airbrush
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...skies may be friendly, and the fares lower, but no jet can compete with the fascination of rolling stock on gleaming rails. With this in mind. Donald Crews has used an artist's airbrush and a designer's eye to link up his unique Freight Train (Greenwillow/Morrow; $6.95). The text is as unadorned as a coal car, but the pictures have a purity and force that Amtrak would do well to emulate...
...might be interested to see how an airbrush can be used to render even an Empress an unperson...
...arrange the folds of a scarf with the care of Michelangelo planning the folds on the Pietá. Sitting immobile for hours at a time has its problems: "My muscles begin to shake after a while. Sometimes the tears start to flow from pain, and we have to airbrush them out of the picture." Such discomfort, of course, cannot be allowed into the photographs...
...Exclusive rights to the portfolio were being hawked in other European countries and the U.S. for fees reportedly as high as $62,000. By week's end, the sole confirmed taker was Paris' France Dimanche, which says that it paid only the "usual price" and promises to airbrush Jackie into a bikini. On Times Square last week, scarce import copies of Playmen were selling for $5 and $6-twice the normal U.S. price...
...minority of airbrush realists do explore one important problem of naturalism: how much information can a painted surface carry, and when does it start usurping the denseness of reality itself? California Artist Richard McLean's Rustler Charger (done from a black-and-white photo in a horse magazine) contains an unassimilable welter of detail, from the pebbles on the ground to the stitching on the girl's pants to the last speckle on the horse's coat. But, says McLean, 37, "it's not just a blown-up photo. I try to get a more heightened...