Word: bettmann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cover: Photograph by U.P.I. -- Bettmann...
Composite portrait of Jesus, including images courtesy: Scala/ Art Resource, N. Y.; Aldo Durazzi (c) 1966 Time- Life Books, Inc.; Erich Lessing (c) 1964 Time- Life Books, Inc.; The Bettmann Archive; Curtis Hooper/ LIFE; Aldo Durazzi/ LIFE
...most often requested subject is Sigmund Freud. "He outsells Jesus," says Bettmann. He makes the remark with some distaste, since he holds psychology responsible for what he considers the deplorable contemporary cult of personality. "Photography today is all closeups," he notes. "All surfaces. Look at Mathew Brady's work. It had a lovely murkiness, style, flavor. He captured souls...
...Bettmann has always been a discerning judge of quality, discarding most of the 100,000 photos he reviewed each year for possible inclusion in the collection. "You could start your own archive from my wastebasket," he says. But one would need the key to the complicated and precise Bettmann cataloguing system, which, he claims with a smile, "is based on Bach. It's all in the music." As it happens, Bettmann, now retired in Florida, plans to devote his time to his "hang-up," a biography of Bach. "I'm a scholar, a bookman," he says...
...history is like being a pilgrim to Jerusalem-two steps forward, one back. And folks worry about technology. Personally, I like it. When I can't sleep, I listen to Bach on my Sony Walkman. That's progress." And that's the real side view from Bettmann...