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Died. Edgar Ansel Mowrer, 84, foreign correspondent and syndicated columnist for the Chicago Daily News from 1914 to 1969; on the Portuguese island of Madeira. As Berlin bureau chief in the '30s, Mowrer received a Pulitzer Prize for his vivid reporting on Hitler's rise, was expelled from Germany and enraged Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who said he would expend an army division to capture Mowrer. As a columnist, Mowrer became increasingly conservative and looked on peaceful coexistence with Communism as "the opium of the West...
...Harry Callahan undoubtedly ranks as one of the world's great living photographers. His work has never reached a mass audience, however, for he has done no photojournalism and he has had no spectacular subjects: no sublime vistas of landscape (unlike his early mentor, Ansel Adams), no wars, no beautiful women. To earn money, he taught photography classes-since 1961 he has presided, diffidently and sometimes with an acute resentment about wasted time, over the department of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. His public utterances are few, and his letters, if one can judge...
...Ansel Adams told Cosindas that even when she took photos in black and white, she was thinking in color. The ICA's collection of her recent thoughts in Polacolor prove Adams right...
...Bazaar and Vogue, snapping his models in the midst of wild-eyed elephants or striding in the rain. But it was his still and startlingly somber portraiture of celebrities and friends that established him, along with Andre Kertesz, Irving Penn, Henri Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith and Ansel Adams, as one of the most important photographers in the world...
...with all their formal elegance and highly-keyed tones, these pictures seem ultimately somewhat artificial. They are quite marvelously photographed, but they are also anachronistic. The great photographers of nature Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams--have been able to make photographs full of the tonal richness and graphic simplicity which typifies Rosenblum's work, but Rosenblum's pictures of the "humanscape" seem to lack the sort of passionate involvement with their particular subject that the "nature scapes" of Weston, Strand and Adams had with theirs. Perhaps it is as simple a matter as the fact that human faces...