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American museums, especially, have been interested in the "more imaginative" masters of the medium, beginning with Edward Steichen, proceeding through the epic or intimist nature poets (Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams) and finishing in an exponential growth of different styles in the '70s -Duane Michals' enigmatic fumetti, Paul Caponigro's monumental landscapes, and Jerry Uelsmann's surrealist montages. Meanwhile, LIFE and Look were the showcases for the documentary photographs: the picture magazines were their museum without walls, and it is now pitifully shrunk. To present the documentary photographer to a "serious" audience, an audacious venture...
Director Federico Fellini, "and there were aspects of Popeye and Wimpy in Buster Keaton." Fellini, who began his career in the '30s as a writer of adventure and science-fiction comics, has been an appassionato of the fumetti,*Italy's comic books, ever since he was a ragazzino, and admits that the comics probably gave something to his own moviemaking. Says he: "A sense of the comic and the humorous in my films, wonder, and a feeling for the fantastic-maybe these came from the comics I read as a little...
Other directors sense the farce in the drama of any still picture. Fellini's White Sheik is a parody of the Italian fumetti, romantic cartoon strips with real pictures instead of drawings. But White Sheik was made as a movie, with due respect paid to continuity of motion and thought. Chafed Elbows, whatever it is, has not paid respect to anything...
Panting Editors. Sophia found another job posing for photographs for the fumetti, the cheapjack Italian magazines that tell vivid stories with strips of pictures like U.S. comic books. She changed her name to Sophia Lazzaro, suggesting that she could raise men from the dead...
Italy's 15 million fumetti fans-readers of the photographic romance magazines that take their name from the dialogue balloons-usually go for soap-opera plots. But last winter a Milan fumetto entrepreneur, Pino Vignal, scored a modest inaugural success -80,000 copies-with a fumetto magazine based on the Bible...