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...late 1940s, Roy DeCarava stepped into the most irresistible role that photography offers: a walker in the city, a camera-equipped descendant of the quick-witted literary strollers that the French called flaneurs. Looking out for the knotty surprises the street has in store, he was like Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris or Harry Callahan in Chicago. What was different for DeCarava was that most of his streets were in Harlem, which made him a roving eye in a part of town that the rest of the world didn't see much of. In the retrospective of his work that...
...three years ago when I comped Crimson photography. Who needs a photography class, I thought. What better opportunity than a daily newspaper to learn one's trade, where you can get right down into the trenches and capture real life. Action! Drama! Terror! Pathos! Do for the Crimson what Cartier-Bresson did for the world of documentary photography. A Pulitzer by Senior year? Not impossible. Just keep those eyes open...
Fifteen years. For the past 15 years, detective Mike Thomas (Mar Cartier) has gotten his hair cut eight times a week, just before concert pianist Isabella Czerny is stabbed in the throat with a deadly pair of scissors. One would think he'd have run out of hair by now, and she'd have moved away from the cursed hair salon where Boston's hilarious audience-participation murder mystery Shear Madness...
...iconoclastic school of Dadaism, photography parallels the development of fine arts rather than emulating it. Henri Cartier-Bresson and Frederick Sommer bring out visual puns of sexuality and tradition in their early 20th century images. In "Valise d'Adam" (1949) Sommers constructs a metaphorical expulsion of Eve from Adam's flesh: a blond baby doll emerging from a menagerie of fabricated objects in the form...
...most women. It is a life in which bemuscled, race-car-driving aristocrats pursue glamorous heroines and in which couples with little need for frequent-flyer mileage cavort from grand Euro- capital to grand Euro-capital, proving that love blossoms best in those cities where a branch of Cartier may be found...