Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among kids who admit they can't control their pot smoking, trouble at home often lurks in the background. Even in Chicago's relatively tranquil North Shore, dysfunction blooms in a thousand ways. Drew, for instance, a thoughtful 16-year-old junior who began getting high in the eighth grade, has had trouble handling marijuana from the start. He claims that his absent father once had a substance-abuse problem. By the ninth grade, he says, "my priorities were totally screwed up. I didn't even buy the books I needed. I was selling pot in the boys' room...
Light and dark are precisely defined in these photographs; not for Ritts the ambiguous grays of other photographers. Although he loves to contrast the two, he does not deal in shadow play. The darkness in his photos comes from dark hair, a dark background, dark skin, and is distinctly separate from the light...
Ritts' most recent book is entitled Africa, and its focus on the contrast between the dark-skinned subjects and the brightness of background and sky is pure Ritts, as are the extreme close-ups that examine the subjects so intently. However, only a few of these photographs are displayed in this exhibition, and they present an odd digression from the stargazing extravaganza that both precedes and follows them...
...addition to handling routine press issues, Singer was instrumental in providing background information to the press and in giving advice to Kennedy School faculty on how to deal with the media, Wilson said...
...booked on a national morning talk show soon after the dismissal. The juror picked to replace Jamison is a 20-year-old white female. The change leaves the jury's ethnic makeup unchanged with nine whites, one black, one Hispanic and one person of a black and Asian background...