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...among the greats of the 20th century. He spent much of his life documenting the American wilderness, turning its craggy features into monumental images. Confronted by Thunderstorm over the Great Plains, near Cimarron, New Mexico (1961), the eye looks automatically for an Arizona Highways magazine caption featuring the words "grandeur," "majesty" and "awe." But if these landscapes became national treasures verging on cliché, it is thanks partly to Adams' dedication and activism...
...story "Streets Red With Blood," on the increasing violence in the Middle East [World, March 18], we ran a photo of Israelis holding up their red-painted hands, accompanied by a caption that read, "Voting for Mayhem: Israeli students at a demonstration in Jerusalem rally for more violence, raising paint-dipped hands." Instead, our caption should have more precisely explained the situation shown in the photograph: "Israeli right-wing student activists hold up their hands, painted in red as a symbol of bloodshed, at a demonstration supporting the cancellation of chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat's lecture at the Hebrew...
...standard gray metal file cabinet a card is taped up. A girl with frizzy hair and a pink bow sits in front of a dessert bowl with a wide grin on her face. The caption reads, “Women have finally realized there is only one source of true happiness: chocolate mousse...
...intent a little, but such is the nature of her artistry. Her ability to capture the unconscious essence of her subject matter almost compels her viewers to construct a past, present and future narrative for all of her prints. Her work is untitled, leaving us to formulate our own caption for the events we see and to attempt to decipher and infer exactly what is going...
Even the spread’s layout speaks to this fact. Forgive my penchant for close reading here (I am, after all in the thesis home stretch) but most of the caption is written in a moderately large, dark red font. The word six however (as in “not a size SIX?”) is bright pink and a whole lot larger. The layout draws your attention to the fact that Chubby doesn’t look the way she should, that the fashion designer has had to work extra hard to make her look decent...