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...upon all the major American movements of the 20th century and does it with balance and care and, in general, a keen eye for the best examples. If you want a short account of the turn-of-the-century New York realist group known as the Ashcan School (Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Bellows and others), the selection here could hardly be bettered...
...former stylist. In the early '90s she began to make clothes in her spare time. When she took them to photo shoots, the models couldn't keep their hands off them. In the past year her garments have made their way into Barney's New York and Henri Bendel, where they've graced the windows of the Fifth Avenue flagship store and sold...
...Marie Curie shares the Nobel Prize for Physics with Henri Becquerel and her husband Pierre for their discovery of radioactivity; she will win a second Nobel, for Chemistry, in 1911, for isolating the radioactive element radium...
...Chez Henri: To good health! The biggest little secret at this intimate quadling bar: a superb house...
Like so many photographers of his day, and not just of his day, Brassai occasionally posed some of the people in pictures that look at first glance like candids. By the 1930s, photographers like Andre Kertesz and Henri Cartier-Bresson had begun to use the new 35-mm handheld Leicas, equipment that could capture fast movement. Brassai persisted in working with a Voigtlander Bergheil. A camera that used small glass plates instead of film--Brassai would eventually adapt it for conventional film--it required a tripod and long exposures. That in turn meant that his subjects usually knew they were...