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...George Washington bridge. Feel free to make your own analogies. After all, Steichen (1879-1973) bridged the transition from photography's early soft-focus, pictorialist style to crisp modernism. He also linked the art world between New York and Paris, and made his own life a bridge from artist to critic to commercial photographer to museum curator. He has been hailed as the greatest photographer of the 20th century, and the Jeu de Paume show - with more than 400 works on display - helps support the claim. This exhibition, surprisingly the first Steichen retrospective in Europe, continues until Dec. 30, before...
...Steichen who emerges in the Paris show is an innovator, a perfectionist and a self-promoter. He experimented with the latest gadgets and technology, using an early pocket camera to capture the crowd at Paris' Longchamps racetrack, and portraying artist Auguste Rodin by combining two negatives, one of him with his Victor Hugo sculpture and another with his The Thinker. (The critics loved it; so did Rodin...
...dozen years, earning Oscar nominations for Edward, My Son; From Here to Eternity; The King and I; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; Separate Tables and The Sundowners. But Kerr never took home a competitive statuette. In 1994, the Academy voted her a lifetime achievement award, proclaiming her "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance...
Bhabha added that until then, there had been isolated academic institutions and artist colonies, but Faust managed to harmoniously combine the two at Radcliffe...
...Artist Anna Schuleit is a former Radclife fellow whose work often consists of conceptual installations, and she said her time at the Institute was a fertile one for her work...