Word: andau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everything." First of all there is that picture on the cover of a very Joan Baezish looking girl (unkempt man's shirt and stringy hair and all) gazing pensively into the darkness. She evidently belongs to a photo essay, "Letter from a Fortified City," by Kenneth Andau...
Several of Andau's pictures are very good, but the whole "face of suffering and anxiety" theme has just been beaten into the ground. One 'Cliffie remarked to his reviewer, "Why doesn't anyone take pictures of happy people any more?" That's not completely fair: several of Andau's grimaces, with a little imagination, fight be construed as half-smiles. On the whole, one gets the feeling one has seen something very much like this essay many times before...