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...help wanting to see for ourselves. His picture Victim of Auto Accident Waiting for Doctor is compelling not just because of the jagged diagonal slash of the composition but because it's a picture of a real person boxed into real agonies while some stranger pops a flashgun in her face. Four months after the death of Princess Diana, the picture is impossible to look at without thinking of what it cost the woman who appears in it. All the same, we don't care--not looking at it is impossible...
...office in a warehouse-like building on the site of the Boston Tea Party. Henderson is spokesman and operating chief, but when financial transactions are involved, both men join in the negotiations. At Beacon Hill social gatherings, Henderson seems anything but a shrewd businessman as he lopes about snapping flashgun pictures of his fellow guests or sits down at the piano to torture the company with his own composition. Come with Me (sample line: "Even silly atoms know they should detonate"). Actually, he is a financial wizard who, along with the Zeckendorfs and the Urises, was one of the first...
...book's photographs, with a few pleasing exceptions such as the Dudley lockers, the Dunster House bench, and the fencing picture, share the woodenness of its prose. More pictures should be taken with natural light or diffused flash, instead of simply with a flashgun mounted on a camera and aimed straight at the victim. While Draper Hill's cartoon House shields are quite well drawn, Gaylen C. Bergren's drawings of the House Masters suffer from the quite serious defect of not even resembling at least half of the subjects...
...Methuen, Mass., the burglar who broke into Stanley Dimmock's house and stole a camera came back a week later for the flashgun attachment...
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