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...Italian contemporary art critic and curator Achille Bonito Oliva has long considered Toscani an important artist, and provided him with two large salas at the 1993 Venice Biennele which he presided over. "The function of art is to puncture the collective disinterest," says Bonito Oliva. "Toscani has turned on its head American pop art's optimistic idea of consumerism...
...Leaving the photographer's studio, another TIME interview of a communicator-cum-artist comes to mind. In the 1965 documentary Don't Look Back, we see Bob Dylan confronting a TIME reporter, saying the magazine has "too much to lose by printing the truth." When the reporter asks what is "the truth," the young Dylan snaps back: "A plain picture. Of, let's say, a tramp vomiting into the sewer. And next to the picture is Mr. Rockfeller, or C.W. Jones on the the subway going to work." Oliviero Toscani actually sees such photographic contrasts in TIME, circa 2007, though...
...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...
...eight children. "I'm used to having crowds around me with everyone shouting at the top of their voices," she says. Her father, a textile merchant, died when she was a child; her widowed mother took over the family business before embarking on a successful career as an artist. (Chan's apartment is decorated with her mother's ink-brush paintings, and some of her mother's steely resolve seems to have rubbed off too.) Although she trained to become a social worker, Chan joined the government as an élite administrative cadet and enjoyed a 39-year career, marred...
...than older ones, with last-borns getting immunized sometimes at only half the rate of firstborns. Eldest siblings are also disproportionately represented in high-paying professions. Younger siblings, by contrast, are looser cannons, less educated and less strapping, perhaps, but statistically likelier to live the exhilarating life of an artist or a comedian, an adventurer, entrepreneur, GI or firefighter. And middle children? Well, they can be a puzzle-even to researchers...