Word: colorism
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What made it all the more challenging was that Eggleston worked in color. In 1976 serious photographers were expected to work in black and white, and most museums assumed that camera art could be made only within the palette you might find in a cinder block. And then there were Eggleston's pictures of places where no one had ever bothered to point a camera before, like the green tiled interior of an empty shower stall or the strangely mesmerizing blackness of an open kitchen oven. In 1961 photographer Robert Frank said, "You can photograph anything now." But it took...
...font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; } #305 { width: 525px; } .titlerow-a { background-color: #cc0000; float: left; width: 100px; font-weight: bold; padding-left: 5px; color:#fff;} .titlerow-b { background-color: #cc0000; float: left; width: 200px; text-align: left; font-weight: bold; padding-left: 5px;color:#fff;} .titlerow-c { background-color: #cc0000; float: left; width: 200px; text-align: left;font-weight: bold; padding-left: 5px;color:#fff;} .row1a { background-color: #fff; float: left; width: 100px; padding-left: 5px;} .row1b { background-color: #fff; float: left; width: 200px; text-align: left; padding-left: 5px;} .row1c { background-color: #fff; float: left...
...mortgages. But more seriously, are TIME and the rest of the media creating an issue that doesn't really exist? Barack Obama has proved his ability to reach out to a broad spectrum of U.S. voters. He didn't win the Democratic nomination on the votes of people of color alone. Lenny Bernstein, Asheville...
...Color of Defeat In "What If He Loses?" ta-nehisi coates reflects on the "loud sucking of the teeth" and "resignation" with which Barack Obama's defeat would be met by the black community [Oct. 20]. If Obama loses the election, the disappointment will be widespread and multiracial because voters will have chosen to continue down a path of political, fiscal and diplomatic disaster. Let's dispense with the black-white distinction. We're all Americans. Peter F. Hartwick, Candler...
...costume shop around 11 a.m., and got to work cutting, pinning, sewing, and draping. While holding a handful of pins and working on the back of the gown, Dang begins to discuss her vision. “I knew I had to use black, because I wanted the color to be very reminiscent of the time period.” She explains, “The design is Puritan without the pure. I put a sexy twist on what would be the color scheme of that time period. It seems very neutral, but the designs and the lines are very...