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...California Museum of Photography until Aug. 29, features everything from underwater scenes off Catalina Island, transvestites in New Orleans and Braille-enhanced black-and-whites as well as portraits, nudes, landscapes, travel shots, abstracts, collages, and everything else you might expect from a "sighted" photographer. Except the subtext and context is blindness: the photographers are legally blind, some born without sight or with limited vision, and others who have lost their vision over time. And that is why, argues the man who organized the show, they are at the very heart...
...Kurdish groups in the north, called into doubt the Iraqi regime's legitimacy. It facilitated the notion that the Iraqi people had asked for a foreign invasion to deliver them from Saddam. Iran's crackdown on student dissidents, foreign journalists and dissident political movements should be viewed in this context...
...exploring. Phillips is asking for consideration of subject matters both abstract and frightening, but he makes the journey worthwhile.Phillips has a tendency to refer to classical images and figures, which would be maddening if not for the notes section in the back. This handy reference provides a context for these numerous mentions of otherwise inscrutable symbols. For example, Topaz—a minor figure in ancient myth who was slain by Apollo—is the title and subject of a poem.The majority of Phillips’ images tend to draw parallels between human nature and the natural world. Comparisons...
...There is some prudence in this approach. Any warning system that only responded to true emergencies would clearly be too conservative. But media messages about a potential threat must be put in context, and authorities must take pains to be specific...
...Original productions. TCM sponsors documentaries on some of the top stars in its catalog (Brando, Joan Crawford, John Garfield) and probing issues of bygone days (political messages in '50s genre films). These give context to the programming and serve as valuable extras on TCM DVDs. The policy also means that my long-TIME colleague, Richard Schickel - who's done exemplary studies of Scorsese, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard for TCM - doesn't have to go on food stamps. The channel runs some Schickel doc nearly every month. Tune in for a fun film education. (See Richard Corliss...