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...frenzy and a coolly purposeful instrument of white supremacy, you could send the message by postcard. Scores of mob murders were caught on film by newspapers, by studio photographers who set up at the scene and by onlookers who brought along a camera. Fifteen years ago, James Allen, an Atlanta antiques dealer, was inspecting an old desk. In one of the drawers, he came across a postcard of the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory supervisor accused on wobbly evidence of murdering a teenage girl in Atlanta. Some years later, Allen was offered a 1911 picture of Laura...
...once you've seen these, you can't talk about race without factoring in the reality of what African Americans really went through." With his companion John Littlefield, Allen eventually assembled a collection of more than 130 lynching photographs, which are now on loan to Emory University in Atlanta. Earlier this year, during the first full public showing of the collection, lines formed every day outside the Roth Horowitz gallery in New York City. (The pictures are not for sale.) Nearly 100 have been assembled in a devastating new book, Without Sanctuary (Twin Palms Publishers; 209 pages; $60). An exhibit...
...there are perfect shapes, materials and, above all, quality. I have noticed changes in the U.S. in the past few years. Things that I bring back from my trips to Europe can now be found here. But design is still not on a lot of Americans' minds. ANNE NICOLAUSSON Atlanta...
...Most Wanted Fugitives list by preaching the violent overthrow of the all-white power structure in places like Lowndes County. But by last week, when he was arrested by a deputy who is black--as are the sheriff of Lowndes County, the mayor and police chief of Atlanta and the two deputies he allegedly shot--that old system had been swept away, not by force but through patient protest and voting. How ironic that the heirs of the nonviolent revolution he walked away from now hold his fate in their hands...
...concert music was glitzy trash. Five years after his death, the Oscar-winning Hungarian composer is at last getting acclaim for such disciplined yet intensely passionate works as the soaring violin concerto he wrote in 1956 for Jascha Heifetz, newly and brilliantly recorded by McDuffie, Yoel Levi and the Atlanta Symphony. Forget the dumb critics' bum rap--this is great music...