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Some of the photographs depict breathtaking landscapes rendered with great artistic flare and attention to aesthetics. One landscape of a pyramid taken by Francis Frith depicts the subtle beauty of the pyramids of Saqqara. His use of light and shadow rivals many Ansel Adams landscapes. The printmaking is of such high quality that the footsteps and the tracks of the cart Firth was pulling his camera equipment in can be seen snaking through the photograph. In spite of these few photographs made with great artistry, most of the images in display seem to be staged, trite, commercialized depictions...
...production does have a few polished performances. Susannah Frith as Lucrezia is convincingly distraught over the moral dilemma in which her husband places her. Her conversion after her seduction is believable, but not overdone. Todd Lochner, the crooked friar who joins in the play's dirty deeds, puts on a deliciously wicked grin as he consorts with Ligurio and Callimaco "in the name...
Rosovsky and Tassel also selected several photographs by Francis Frith, a greengrocer who left his, shop in Liverpool in 1858 to take pictures of the Holly Land, and others by Sgt. James McDonald, who made his "Ordinance Survey of Jerusalem" for the British Army...
...pictures which bear only the slightest resemblance to one another. Both photographs depict Tiberias, a coastal city in Northern Israel. They were taken from the exact same location but separated by 100 year's time. Only an ancient tower, present in both photos, helped Tassel find the spot where Frith rested his camera...
...first week of its release. Frankie has now sold more records more quickly than any other group since the Beatles. "We're the image of England 1984," says Holly Johnson, 24, Frankie's vocalist. Others see something a little different. Wrote Rock Commentator Simon Frith, after watching tourists in London buy up countless knockoffs of the band's FRANKIE SAY T shirts: "I decided this was the final triumph of the 'new pop,' the eclipse of content by form...