Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue almost exactly as it is seen by audiences. To capture the moment, Photographer Herbert Migdoll photographed the dancers, Trinette Singleton and Maximiliano Zo-mosa, during a performance. Then at another performance, with a telephoto lens, he made the closeup of Miss Singleton's face and the filmed background in order to complete his final montage...
...Widerberg shows us the truth in his most masterful technical strokes. With his camera lens wide open, the depth of field is reduced, and all we can see is the blade of grass--Elvira's hair, and, in the end, the gray barrel of the pistol. The background--the rest of the world--is blurred: "When you look at the blade of grass, you can see it and nothing else. The rest of the world is blurred," says Sixten...
...effect. But we are looking through a marijuana camera. Anastasia's face snaps around, fixes directly on the lens, holding the camera--as if to say, wait, think before you react to this scene, in my world all these quick moves are phony. The camera waits. In the background Twelvetrees' angry face sags, crumbles, dribbles into blankness. His hand goes awkwardly to his mouth...
They sorta liked my unusual background and I had very much of an attitude of being very constructive and socially responsible, enthusiastic about learning...
...different types. It is a sort of entertainment, like going slumming or someth ing.tIi (bffi,t IRV.push or something. It is just a cultural activity, part of the necessary paraphernalia for an "education." For me it was much more because I had left behind my sort of lower class background and had attempted to identify with the broader culture...