Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bullet is a beautiful color...
...received a great deal of help from the people at USA Today and the paper's owners, Gannett Publishing," said Paul A. Felix '87, art director of the Lampoon. "They were very supportive: they gave us their logos, showed us unique color graphics techniques and helped us out with the final production stages...
...Color sends its messages too. Most photographers now take to it comfortably enough. At the very least, fierce tones give a second life to black-and-white cliches -- what better than a heated format for rewarming old chestnuts? But color also has special advantages for dealing in deadpan ironies. Even before the eye takes in the subjects of Mary Ellen Mark's photo essay on Miami, the sheer chromatic punch says that Florida is a great setting for the human comedy. The lemony sunlight, the all too scrumptious blue of the sky: even the elements are in on the joke...
...bright colors can be inflected to deliver bad news too. In Mark's picture of an old man in his single room, a stark but sickly light signals that the indignities of age are no less painful for being suffered in the sunshine. The red label on a jar of coffee peeks from the refrigerator, an emblem of that sparkling world just outside, but the atmosphere is keyed to the humble brown mess at the bottom of his cooking pan. There must be times in this sunny town when the laughs come hard. That picture points to the prime dilemma...
...break into the wrong home and leave the place a shambles. Seems it happens all the time. "We'll get a carpenter straight out, sir," says one apologetic bobby. "We have them on standby. For incidents such as this." But if the city is drained of color, there are rainbows in the language. One of No Surrender's pleasures for an out-of-towner is the discovery that wit and edge did not desert Liverpool when the Beatles went south...