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Everywhere Thomason turns, there is a camera (the Today show, Good Morning America and C-SPAN are all filming) and a meeting waiting to happen. Someone reports that 34% of this year's Grammy nominees will be performing (gratis, of course, as is everyone) and that Michael Jackson needs a call. Thomason is still twisting the arms of CBS, Time Warner and Disney to find out what they will pay to telecast the events, including gala performances by Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Bill Cosby, a reunited Fleetwood Mac, a vast parade with two Elvis impersonators and a lawn-chair precision...
...Suau was able to capture something unique in each setting he visited. Viewed through the lens of his camera, the largest cities of the world reveal striking as well as subtle differences. Suau's photos also bear witness to the most persistent, if rather ironic, question of human existence: Will our own refuse overtake...
Danger is frequently part of the urban equation, and this assignment was no exception. To do his job, Suau had to bring thousands of dollars' worth of camera equipment into the most destitute sections of the cities he visited. "Sometimes you almost needed your own gang for protection," he says. In Zaire mourners in a funeral procession threw stones at the car in which Suau and his guide were riding. On one of the major drug-sale corners in the South Bronx, people in the buildings above heaved eggs and rotten food at Suau and the cortege of Guardian Angels...
...schedule of President-elect Bill Clinton. The photo session immediately followed the interview with Clinton by managing editor Henry Muller, deputy M.E. John F. Stacks, chief political correspondent Michael Kramer and White House correspondent Margaret Carlson. After shooting six rolls of film in seven minutes, William put down his camera and told Clinton, "I think I got it." Unaccustomed to such a fast-working photographer, the stunned President-elect responded, "You are the first photographer I didn't stop first...
...points to me. So I get in. The limo rolls down Mount Auburn street and stops in front of the Lampoon Castle (rented for the evening), where a few of my 'poonster acquaintances are loitering. The driver walks around to open my door, and I step out as a camera shutter fires...