Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The color photographs by Joel Meyerowitz currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Harcus Krakow Gallery display a lyric sensibility for which the thrill of the eye on the world's luminous surfaces -- water, sky, foliage,' flesh -- lovingly captured, contains intense emotional value. The photographs were...
However, beneath his first astonishment, the gallery-goer can feel an obscure troubling of dissatisfaction with this work. In an articulate, chummy interview published in the catalogue that accompanies the museum show, Meyerowitz cites the painter Edward Hopper among predecessors who have taken the Cape for a subject. The comparison...
Now a resident of New York, Hughes delights in the city s skyline. "There's a weird minimal beauty in New York's great slabs that is best seen from afar," he says. "One of the finest scenes in the world is Lower Manhattan beheld from the Staten...
Michael Caine and Maggie Smith have never worked with each other be fore, but in the remaining subplot they make a perfect match. Smith gives her best screen performance ever in the role of a hard-drinking, hard-talking actress who arrives in Beverly Hills for Oscar night. Alternately buoyant...
Photographer Walker Evans (1903-75) is best remembered for Depression photos of Southern dirt farmers published in the celebrated Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Text for that book was written by the late James Agee, whose eager eyes peer out from a 1937 portrait that is one of the...