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...world between New York and Paris, and made his own life a bridge from artist to critic to commercial photographer to museum curator. He has been hailed as the greatest photographer of the 20th century, and the Jeu de Paume show - with more than 400 works on display - helps support the claim. This exhibition, surprisingly the first Steichen retrospective in Europe, continues until Dec. 30, before going to Lausanne, Zurich, Reggio Emilia, Madrid, Wolfsburg, New York and Toronto...
...Steichen is credited with creating the first fashion photographs, for an article on the French designer Paul Poiret commissioned by the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911. Pages from the magazine are on display, with the models looking stiff despite their glorious capes and dresses. Contrast these wooden images with the imaginative fashion shots of Steichen's later years, like White, a classy composition of three women and a horse. One of the exhibition's surprises is a silent publicity film, Edward Steichen, America's Foremost Photographer, showing the cigar-smoking, three-piece-suited artiste surrounded by assistants...
...Europeans brought with them rats, cats, and pigs, which swarmed the island and devoured dodo eggs until the bird disappeared from Mauritius.A few managed to escape the island, including two which mysteriously landed in London.In 1638, Sir Hamon L’Estrange wrote about one of the curiosity displays popular at the time, with “a strange looking fowle,” as recounted in Pinto-Correia’s book. These dodos on display disappeared, leaving some to assume they had died in captivity.Many, including Berry, believe one of the birds surfaced—stuffed?...
...Yale.Hanging on to first place will require stopping a Princeton attack that features a deep group of talented receivers and the running of athletic scrambling quarterback Bill Foran, who averages 54 yards per game, good enough for fifth in the Ivies. Foran’s scrambling ability was on display last season against Harvard, as he entered the game for a slightly injured Jeff Terrell and ran five times for 27 yards in his lone drive on the way to a crucial first-half touchdown.The Crimson secondary, meanwhile, will face the daunting task of containing Tigers wideouts Adam Berry?...
...during the recruiting off-season. English The fashion mavens of the Harvard world, English concentrators always have time to dress for success between their six hours of class a week. Leggings are an essential component to any outfit, allowing female concentrators to go without pants (frequently leading to the display of something resembling the toe of a certain hump-backed ungulate). Wearing oversized shirts that flop loosely the hips, these Shakespeare junkies are able to hide the stress weight that comes from having no job or applicable skills upon graduation. omputer Science/Mathematics/Physics Veterans of never-ending problem sets, these concentrators...