Word: flashbulbs
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...Richard Deutsch too much the urbane globetrotter, Howard Beale altogether too much the wise but enigmatic doctor. It is as though everyone is expecting a photographer to take his picture at any moment, and by God, he's not going to be caught looking out of character when the flashbulb goes...
...portraits in this exhibition reveal much more than an aspect of one person. For that reason, the subject's name often is not used as the title of the picture. The viewer must put emotion into Marian Palfri's flashbulb picture of the sphinx-faced Negro woman, "Wife of a Victim of a Mob Lynching." A photograph by Dorothea Lange changes from a picture of a smiling grandmother to a beaming representation of boundless green nostalgia: "God Bless Nora Kennally, Country Clare, Ireland...
...first concert in her native city in 14 years, she was distressed to see that photographers were waiting. Commanded the coloratura: "Get those people away from here." Her husband-manager, Richard Bonynge, followed with a back handed swing at a photographer's camera and smashed the flashbulb...
...studies his homeland with an unblinking poet's eye that invites comparison to Antonioni and Bergman. He deftly juggles modish effects, melding sun and skin into the languid what-next boredom of a summer afternoon or exposing the backbone of a scene with the blinding suddenness of a flashbulb popping in the dark...
Patricia Neal, also of Hud, won the best-actress Oscar.* Nearly eight months pregnant, she was asleep at her home in Buckinghamshire when the phone rang; next day she went down to London for a flashbulb greeting at Marylebone Station, with full obsequies by the top-hatted stationmaster...