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...lousy, subsidized or not. If Congress cannot be sure whether a new bomber or missile will work before committing billions to it, how can some arts panel be sure that Anna Anybody, recipient of $15,000 for a photographic project, will go on to become the next Diane Arbus or Imogen Cunningham? And how can it know in advance what she will produce? It can't, that's how. No one's taste is infallible; some seeds germinate, others do not. And grants are not state commissions. A degree of waste is built into patronage, period. The notion of "cost...
...Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, celebrates the 150th year of the dagguerotype. The MFA is presenting works from the 1930s and 1940s, and the Fogg exhibit presents those photographs from 1940 to the present. Photographers on view at the Fogg through Christmas vacation include Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Duane Michals, Aaron Siskind Weegee and Minor White...
...Harvard University Art Museums and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston celebrates the 150th year of the dagguerotype. The MFA is presenting works from the 1930s and 1940s, and the Fogg exhibit presents those photographers on view at the Fogg through Christmas vacation include Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Duane Michals, Aaron Siskind Weegee and Minor White...
...There are tentative plans for it to travel to other cities, and it should, to spread the word again that Klein was crucial to the camera world's postwar taste for more offbeat and haphazard imagery; he helped set the mood from which photographers like Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus sprang...
While admirable for the scope of its research, especially the extensive interviews with the photographer's friends. Bosworth's biography does not go far enough in filling in the person where there now stands a myth. The author, it seems., cannot get beyond seeing Arbus as a person who liked gutsy challenges and reveal her as someone unable to face reality. Thirteen years after her death the myth of Diane Aubus has ripened. The portray presented here tries to accomodate the fantastic element, to take the mythic status as a given and larch on to descriptions that pander...