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These are the pictures that open the Chicago show, curated expertly by Stephanie D'Alessandro of the Art Institute and John Elderfield of MOMA. They represent a final prelude to the leap Matisse would make around 1913 into radical distortion and near abstraction. Much of that work he would do in the shadow of World War I. Rejected for service - he was 44 when the war began - he went on working in a Paris studio, while outside his door Europe hammered itself to pieces. Not long after, his hometown in northern France was occupied by German troops, his mother left...
Later, in Phoenix, Palin headlined a McCain fundraiser at the Biltmore hotel, where she once clashed with his aides about whether she would be allowed to deliver her own concession speech on the final night of the 2008 campaign. (In the end, she wasn't.) Most of the campaign advisers who viewed Palin as untrustworthy and erratic have left McCain's orbit, and his current aides were delighted to apply her star power to their troubled cause. With Palin in the state, they collected e-mail addresses for follow-up contact, raised several hundred thousand dollars and attracted the kind...
...What They're Missing in the Bay of Bengal: A tiny tropical island has vanished--and we're not talking about the final season of Lost. Long the focus of a dispute between India and Bangladesh, New Moore Island, a 1.4-sq.-mi. speck that once sat several feet above sea level, has been claimed by climate change instead. Regional sea levels have risen dramatically over the past decade...
...decide whether the press should be allowed into their private moments. Approximately 55% of families agree to permit media coverage, but although dozens of journalists attended the early transfers after the ban was lifted, there now seems to be little interest in them. (See more pictures of the final journey of a fallen soldier...
...acted on impulse. I think that's what gave his images a kind of truth: Johnny Cash at San Quentin State Prison in 1969, flipping the bird directly at Jim's lens, or the Beatles during their final concert performance, or Janis Joplin with her bottle of Southern Comfort, laughing at one of his jokes. There was no hair and makeup, no styling. At heart, he was a photojournalist. With a Leica camera or two hanging from his neck, Jim fought to get the best images he could, no matter whom or what he was shooting...