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...exhibit bore the ambitious title of "Photography in the Fine Arts," and was the brainchild of Ivan Dmitri, a onetime etcher who switched to commercial photography when etching lost to the camera in the 1930s. Dmitri decided that most museums would not bother with the serious photographer, and galleries were not interested in showing or selling his wares. What photographers needed, Dmitri argued, was someone to screen out the best from the millions of pictures taken each year...
Kudos & Kicks. Last summer Dmitri held his first show under what he considered promising conditions. With help from the Saturday Review, he campaigned to get amateur and professional photographers, libraries, camera associations, magazines, even advertising agencies to send him hundreds of their best pictures. He then got together a jury consisting not only of photographers, but also museum curators and art critics. Director James J. Rorimer of the Met Museum agreed to hang the final selections as works of art. When the show opened, it was an immediate hit with gallerygoers-but the more successful it became, the more bitterness...
Cameras on Guns. This year's Met show found tempers even higher. When Dmitri asked Steichen to serve on the 1960 jury, the old man contemptuously dismissed Dmitri as "the Sir Galahad of Photography," denounced his campaign as "the most damaging thing that has ever happened to the art of photography"; it was as if the Metropolitan "went to the sign painters' union for its paintings." Besides, said Steichen, getting to the nub of the controversy: How could anyone tell from one or two entries whether a photographer had been guided by art or accident? "Some...
...tell a sort of child's history of steel from the first meteor that ever hit the earth to the first manned rocket that leaves it, and most of the time Moviemaker Sutherland proves a slick entertainer and a painless pedagogue. Unhappily, the music of Oscar-Winning Dmitri Tiomkin, who is probably the world's loudest composer, bangs away on the sound track like a trip hammer. But the picture's pace is brisk, its tricks of animation are better than cute, and the plug, when the sponsor slips it in on the final frame, is modestly...
Besides Shostakovich, who is acting as chairman, the Russian delegation includes composers Dmitri Kabalevsky, Tikhon Khrennikov, Konstantin Dankevich, Fikret Amirov, and music critic Boris Yarutovsky...