Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Army service in the early 1950s, Drapkin returned to TIME to become involved in all of the magazine's graphic areas, from photo assignments to cover design. He was named picture editor in 1978. Since then his photographers have won scores of major awards, including the coveted Overseas Press Club Robert Capa Gold Medal seven times. As he looks back on his 35 years with TIME, Drapkin marvels at the strides photojournalism has made. "Our color deadline has gone from five weeks to mere hours. Technology has allowed us to meet more challenges and be better journalists than ever...
...work of the painter's brush. A very conscious part of his style is the way he rings his forms (plain geometrical ones, as a rule: rectangles, cones, cylinders) with zips of relieving color, orange, yellow or vermilion. When these work--and often they are little more than a graphic mannerism--they lend his images an indefinable air of instability, an apparitional flicker, a distant cousin of the twitching, fluttering profiles in Giacometti. But it is the density of the paint that anchors the image every time. It gives the surface a rich, fiesty eventfulness. It makes one feel...
...Renoir Graphics: A Graphic Identity for a Major Exhibition: Carl Zahn, Mabel Louise Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts...
...subtle examination of cultural and class differences. Architect Bill Rawn's resume, writes Kidder, suggests "the history of a Renaissance man in delirium": political science at Yale ('65); law degree from Harvard ('69); both assistant to the president and assistant chancellor for physical planning at the University of Massachusetts; graphic artist represented by galleries in New York City and Amsterdam; architecture degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received the design prize for the graduating class...
Although Jagged Edge avoids most of the blatancy of the more mundane, graphic thrillers, it still seems an unlikely vehicle for both Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close. These are actors we tend to identify with soul-searching, sensitive movies--movies that demand some amount of psychological development from their characters. Jagged Edge is somewhat overly plotted, too crowded with testimony and surprise twists in the story to allow for the characters themselves to go through much personal transformation...