Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye, Metz...
Rollers is the British word for soft rockers. That accounts for one part of the group's name. Its collective eye on the American market, the Rollers stuck a pin in a map of the U.S. and hit Bay City, Mich...
...pages. From 700 B.C. to A.D. 1975, says Galbraith, national leaders have wrestled ineptly with the problems of economic management-in recent years by trying to make "a fool's choice" between inflation and high employment. No such choice is necessary, says Galbraith, with an obvious eye on the 1976 U.S. elections: Government could stimulate the economy as much as might be necessary, without causing inflation, if only the public knew enough about the wonders that wage-price controls can perform to elect an Administration that would dare to impose them...
...show does mayhem to the visual sense. The viewer is clobbered by an eye-level row of genitals, part of an 8-ft. by 30-ft. nude portrait of Andy Warhol and members of The Factory. Only a few steps away hangs a portrait of President Eisenhower, a crumpled, empty man. It is an assault on the image of Eisenhower that we carry in our minds-the formal Karsh portrait, the White House handout, and the hundreds of others...
Dark Edges. Like Cartier-Bresson, Avedon gives us everything he and the lens record, including the dark edges of the film itself. This sharp edge forces the eye inward to the details effaces and nuances of expression. Avedon's pictures are lean, made with soft daylight and bouncelight against a white, seamless background. They are also stark because of the moment that Avedon tries to capture, as in the 1955 picture of a youthful Truman Capote. He reads the eyes of his subjects, waiting for that second when they reveal the facet of character he wants: he allows...