Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wegman's blackout skits on video were followed in the '70s by cartoonish drawings and whimsies staged for the camera. Like the big, vaporous paintings he started showing in 1987, they have their moments of Thurberesque charm, but it's only the loopy dog pictures that click. Situated somewhere between Marcel Duchamp's cunning art pranks and David Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks, they rib Conceptualism even as they lay out its possibilities. But in the end their effectiveness rests upon powers of portrait psychology that owe little to Conceptualist mind games...
...part of ourselves that we hold back from the world, above all in our moments of abject obedience. In one picture after another, the secret of Fay Ray's charm is the way she gets the last laugh, even when wrapped in aluminum foil, by facing down the camera with her own impenetrable self-enclosure...
Afterward, both Democrats agreed to pose for the cover picture by portraitist Gregory Heisler. But even then the competition was calling. As the camera clicked, a Tsongas aide could be heard outside yelling, "You may be making art in there, but we got to make some politics out there...
...movies." During his senior year in high school, inspired by an English teacher with a passion for good writing, he decided on an alternate route to filmmaking: screenwriting. He enrolled in the Filmic Writing Program at the University of Southern California. "Any fool can figure where to point the camera," he says. "But you have to have a story to tell...
Jonathan Fisher and Nicole Armenta also shine as Bob and Wendy Fate, two Hawaiian-shirt clad, camera carrying tourists on the vacation of life. They grin goofily as they play "tricks" on the rest of the cast, shaping destinies with hand buzzers and squirt guns...