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Prior to getting sick, Hai Tan Ngyuen, the brother I know as John, was a healthy, active child always getting into trouble. The pictures that line our family’s fireplace depict a toddler unfettered by nightly bombings, blissfully ignorant of the war around him. He enjoyed playing with American soldiers, including my father, and eagerly showed off the pet chickens he constantly chased around the yard. Whenever he stood with my mother in the mile-long lines for rice rations, women cooed about how cute he was, about how he would be Saigon’s next...
...this is not to call into question the artistic merits of the photographs, or indeed the photographers. It was still the charge of the photographer to anticipate what would be historically important-what features of his or her current generation would come eventually to be defining, and to depict those features with poignancy and beauty. At the very least, this choice to include or exclude--this visual diction, as it were--defines the photographers as artists as well as documentarians...
...Photographs by Brassai (which, although taken in Paris, have probably been included in this collection simply because, for the purposes of description, they might as well have been taken in America) depict the moral bankruptcy and decadence of the 1930's in terms of space and the objects that occupy it. An opium pipe, a negligent smoker of that pipe, and the chaise lounge upon which she sleeps are the focal point of "An Opium Smoker Asleep," which simultaneously chronicles and criticizes the social norms of the 1930's Paris demimonde. Lighting is dark and the focus...
...Sept. 11, 2001, I turned on CNN to hear a witness describe a man with his skin hanging off, Mayor Guliani reference people “jumping from the towers” and an observer depict the bodies falling from the sky. One thought passed through my mind: Women don’t do this...
...Shakira. We haven't met, but I've seen her. I really like her. I like how different she is--how she combines all this ethnicity. You know, I'd like to get back to people trying to depict me as the diva. I went through a period when I was touring when I was so unhappy. A lot of people couldn't see it because great things were happening to me. But I was really being overworked. I had really unhealthy people around me who were doing damaging things, and nobody knew this. I think a lot of people...