Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family album. Only instead of a vague reminiscence, the thought of relatives we knew ten years ago, there is a jarring of the intellect; the moment of rebellion is stunned into life. Edgar Varese in his studio. Nin printing her own works in an attic on Macdougal Street, Robert Duncan as a boy: they all appear, either as apparitions in the photographs or in the text...
...stumbled badly in its first step towards of feeting this good idea, though, when it chose Duncan to be the photographer. Duncan is the Harold Robbins of American photography-not very good, but very successful. His coverage of our two Asian wars. Korea and Vietnam, have made him the best-known photographer in America. His photos have always confirmed things that we already knew, or thought we knew. His war photos: our gallant boys, bravely fighting the faceless hordes: why, sure, war is hell, and our troops get exhausted, and dirty, and ... boy! it's rough; but still they fight...
...choice of the photographer killed any chance the project had of fulfilling the promise of the idea. One wishes Robert Frank could have been persuaded to do the assignment, or Bruce Davidson, or Ken Heyman, or Constantine Manos. Perhaps next time-Duncan's coverage was well received by many critics, and NBC might feel it worth doing again. If they do, though. Duncan will probably be rehired: go with a winner. Perhaps aesthetic judgment is too much to ask of the corporate mentality...
Anyway, this book (yes, this is a book review) is a collection of the photos Duncan took for NBC during the Republican and Democratic conventions. A large number of the photos are Bachrach-on-an-off-day portraits of the delegates, candidates, and hangers-on that are tenuously related to anything only by the banalities Duncan wrote to accompany his photos. These portraits are really little more than testimonials to the sharpness of a new lens, a prototype 400 mm. f/6.3 telephoto made by Ernst Leitz for the Mexico City Olympics. The lens really is fantastic; things are pretty...
...DUNCAN GOT ALMOST as much material assistance from NBC. Nikon, and Leitz as Thien gets every month from Nixon. No corporation was able to give Duncan the one thing he needed more than any other-a good...