Word: exhibit
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Putting together the exhibit, now on view at the United Nations in New York City, was no simple task. "There was an extraordinary outpouring from photographers," observes Aaron Schindler of Photo Perspectives, who designed the show. He, along with Sandra Miocic and Mirna Safcak, two women of Croatian descent who first proposed the exhibit, culled the photos from more than 10,000 pictures. Their goal: to find graphically strong, informative and emotionally evocative images that would illustrate distinct agonies of the war -- ethnic cleansing, the siege of Sarajevo, the medical emergency, life in detention camps and refugee centers...
...final selection of 64 pictures, one-third of them in black and white, represents the work of 36 photographers from 12 countries, including many whose pictures have appeared in our pages. Chosen as the emblem of the exhibit is a photo of a woman grieving at the funeral of her husband, a Croatian policeman killed in an ambush by Serbs of the Yugoslav National Army forces. It was taken by TIME's Christopher Morris, who has covered the war since its start and has provided some of its most powerful images. After the show closes in New York City...
Within our pages, we've printed some of the most striking images of the war in the former Yugoslavia, but the totality of the tragedy demands more space than any magazine can give it. That's why, when the idea of mounting a photographic exhibit was presented to TIME's managing editor Jim Gaines and picture editor Michele Stephenson, they jumped at the opportunity. "Life and Time Warner had already sponsored an exhibit on Somalia, and we felt we should do the same for Bosnia," says Stephenson. "It was a chance to tell the whole story -- all sides and facets...
...times, this broad canvas tends to obscure the nuances of O'Hara's art. Gooch provides a detailed account of the party, argument or museum exhibit which inspired a particular poem, but usually offers little analysis of the aesthetic or linguistic concerns the poem explores. In some ways, this approach befits a poet who compared his poems to unmade telephone calls, but the overall effect sometimes privileges O'Hara's role as social butterfly over that of poet...
...same study, Gortmaker reports that overweight men did not exhibit the same extent of socioeconomic differences as women. But men who were one foot shorter in height than average showed a 10 percent increase in poverty rate and earned $3,000 less income per year...