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...France, Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda of Japan, and even the emperor of Hollywood, Bob Hope. There were fireworks and fishing contests, viewings of the Gerald Ford stamp collection, and a $1,000-a-plate dinner of chicken breast complemented by Michigan wine (Tabor Hill Winery's Vidal Semi-Blanc...
...Grande Odalisque, the body blandly composed, smooth, supernaturally white. But the feet are unclassically dirty from padding around a grimy atelier. The model's face, half turned toward the camera, wears an unsettling tigerish expression. In another picture, black-clad climbers struggle up the snowy folds of Mont Blanc looking like a necklace of chocolate chips dropped into a vanilla sundae. Meanwhile, journalistic history is displayed in a set of pictures and captions from the first interview ever recorded (in 1886) for both eye and ear. The cameramen-interviewers are Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, who worked under...
...often contemporary ways. They include the equivalents of snapshots and salon portraits, multiple exposures to analyze the flight of pigeons and the strides of men, romanticized landscapes and still lifes clearly derived from painting, as well as reportage on everything from war to travel and exploration, from Mont Blanc to the Crimea to the Nile. A photographic task force was even commissioned by the French government to rove the country photographing historic monuments (rather like Roy Stryker's famous teams in the U.S. during the 1930s Depression). One of the finest results is a highly abstract portrait...
...Chris Nilan about The Beanpot. He's a former Husky defenseman who happened to play a great game during last year's classic. He's traded in his red and white uniform for rouge, bleu and blanc. Now, Nilan skates for the Montreal Canadiens, one of a dozen NHL clubs that send scouts to the Garden every February. That's what The Beanpot...
...Grand Blanc, Mich...