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...that was long ago, and photography has come a long way, baby. Film is more sensitive. Lenses are cleverer and faster. For years people have been bombarded by sneak shots, candid exposes, sensitive impressions of subway straps, flying tackles artfully half-arrested in motion, slick distortions like the famous photograph of Estes Kefauver's huge hand symbolically extended toward the voting public...
Choosing his 197 favorites out of so many, Stryker, now 80, offers many of these. What stands out for the reader today are the portraits. There is noth ing candid about them. The subjects have prepared a face to meet the world and are all the more revealing as a result. Paul Carter's formal view of a tuberculous family in New York is touched with an eerie stillness. But the exchange is certainly marked by what Stryker describes as "a natural regard for human dignity." Says Stryker: "Experts have said to me that's the face...
...midnight to meet his 7 a.m. deadline. "I'm very slow," he says. "I've had no formal art training at all, so I'm still struggling with my style." Lacerating though he and some of his rivals have been to the Administration, Wright makes a candid and astonishing confession: "I'm afraid we've lost our capacity to be vicious. We don't seem to get cartoons with explosive impact any more, the kind that slams somebody right between the eyes with no subtlety at all." He is too modest about his ability...
...poignant moments as Chaplin, the international celebrity, demonstrates his isolation and unworldliness through his fictional alter ego, and his consequent vulnerability to the prying and exploitation of the press and television. This was a subject Chaplin knew all about. When the King becomes an unwitting participant in a Candid Camera-type TV show or wittingly attempts to make a living by endorsing cheap booze, he finds he cannot control his name and fame. At this point the movie may not exactly ring resoundingly with truth, but it at least manages to make some small, authentic protesting sounds...
...York Post. The New York Times's Tom Wicker used the misquotation in the lead of his Tuesday column. Rued Wicker: "It didn't occur to me that the Washington Post would be wrong." As for the Post, Managing Editor Howard Simons had a sadly candid comment: "All of our failsafe systems just failed...