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Despite the constantly changing backdrop, the themes strongly resemble one another. Melville concentrates on the problems faced by West Indians in the West Indies, Englishmen in the West Indies or West Indians in England. The stories aim to investigate the heritage of colonialism...
...using the past for its symbolic or mythic value. The Minnesota frontier of Little House on the Prairie and the Depression-era South of The Waltons were essentially the same locale: an all-American Everyplace, where ethical issues and family dramas could be worked out against an idealized backdrop, far from the messy moral ambiguities of modern days...
...knew right away that this was a perfect assignment for William." It was also a logistical nightmare. In a little more than six weeks, Coupon and an assistant had to travel to Alaska, Mexico, Borneo, Papua New Guinea and the Central African Republic, lugging camera equipment and a studio backdrop into various rain forests and wildernesses. In each place William had to locate his subjects, win their trust and take their pictures, all on a tight time schedule. Along the way he was robbed in New Guinea, and his assistant came down with a bad case of malaria...
...camera and plunged in, beginning what he calls his Social Studies series with Turkey's Kurds. He quickly developed a characteristic technique, which he has used with everyone from Native Americans to American Presidents: he takes subjects out of their surroundings and photographs them against a canvas backdrop. Hochstein thinks there is a happy paradox here: "The sameness of the background emphasizes the personalities of the people." That is clear in the pictures for this week's cover story; no one who sees them will easily forget Coupon's subjects, even if their cultures vanish forever...
...Danube River to the east, virtually cutting the republic in two. The Yugoslav federal air force subjected Osijek, Slavonia's major city, to indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets. Said a senior British diplomat in London: "This is naked grabbing of all the ground Milosevic can get." Against that backdrop, Yugoslav leaders gathered at the weekend in the Dutch capital for an E.C.-sponsored conference at which they are likely to prove as bellicose as their compatriots now fighting on the ground...