Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WHOLE FUNCTION of the artist in the world," Ruskin wrote, "is to be a seeing and feeling creature...the work of his life is to be twofold only: to see, to feel." The conviction advanced in the 1860s and '70s by the French Impressionists that seeing is equivalent to feeling has been present in photography throughout its history. But only recently, especially with the sudden increase of color work among serious photographers, has a painterly love and awe for pure optical effects impressively begun to displace the photographer's traditional documentary concerns...
...RECENT, highly publicized show of American photography at the New York Museum of Modern Art called "Mirrors and Windows," an attempt was made to distinguish two ideas of what a photograph is: either "a mirror, reflecting a portrait of the artist who made it...or a window, through which one might better know the world." (This from the show's catalogue essay, written by the museum's director of photography, John Szarkowski). In reviewing "Mirrors and Windows" for The New Republic, John Canaday wrote a reactionary two-part article entitled "Polluted Birthright." "The pollutant I am referring to," Canaday explained...
...millionaire liquor dealer suspected ot engineering Bolles's murder. In contrast, the state's new governor, 40-year-old Bruce Babbitt, is by almost all accounts serious about putting a stop to Arizona crime, and the recent prosecution of the state's two most notorious land fraud artists, Ned Warren, Sr. and Howard Woodall, has demonstrated Arizona's concern about its national reputation as a haven for every con artist and retired mobster in the country...
...leaders protesting the bad name homosexuality was getting from the case. Other news conferences followed. Gacy had entertained young children as "Pogo the Clown." A spokesman for the Clown Guild called reporters together to declare that Gacy was not in the union, but rather "a free-lance artist." The spokesman noted that bookings for clowns in the Chicago area were down because mothers felt their children were scared after seeing photographs of Gacy in costume. On the whole, however, there was no real sense of city wide fear, no Son-of-Sam-where-will-he-strike-next terror. What...
...grim visages of farmers, the abstracted faces of New York subway riders, the pocked brick of a city tenement or the burnished beauty revealed in a pair of pliers and a wrench. Evans' compositions have a classical austerity, though at heart he was a great American romantic-an artist who celebrated the nobility of ordinary objects and people...