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...least for a moment, in some special quality in Harvard. My moment came and went the summer after my high school graduation. Then, on the advice of a girl-friend, I got hold of a copy of Smithsonian magazine. The magazine, following the summer 1986 bandwagon, published an essay commemorating Harvard's much-ballyhooed 350th anniversary. It was written by a Melvin Maddocks--who like many authors of such pieces boasted a class year...
...prosperity of the picture magazines: Look vanished in 1971; LIFE suspended publication in 1972. Tensions erupted between editors -- text oriented, even at picture magazines -- and some of the more deeply committed photojournalists over what to cover and how. Eugene Smith, one of the masters of the LIFE photo-essay, broke away from the magazine in 1954 to seek, in his view, more profound forms of expression. He spent nearly 20 years in obscure poverty composing lengthy, obsessive projects, finally regaining acclaim with Minimata, his expose of industrial mercury poisoning in Japan...
...TIME Essay by Lance Morrow, page...
...bulging with deposits, photojournalism is poised at a moment that holds triumphs and complex dilemmas. During the 1980s, magazines began using more pictures and giving them bigger space. It may be that too many were celebrity portraits and glamour shots, but the galvanizing news image and the serious photo-essay were never squashed by the sparkle and hype that squeezed them. Magazines in the U.S. and abroad sheltered indispensable projects like Sebastiao Salgado's global survey of work, Alon Reininger's portrait of the age of AIDS and the essays on homelessness by Mary Ellen Mark and Eugene Richards...
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