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...films like the 2001 smash hit Amélie fight American cultural hegemony. (Amélie star Audrey Tautou and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet are back with a World War I film, A Very Long Engagement.) The foundation of internationally successful writers like Amélie Nothomb and Bernard-Henri Lévy is, of course, their command of French. Rapper MC Solaar makes crafty, creative use of French lyrics. And Publicis ceo Maurice Lévy has assembled the globe's fourth-largest advertising network without diluting the agency's French flair. In all these cases, a willingness...
Paul Rogat Loeb will speak on his citizen’s guide to keeping hope alive in a time of fear as part of the Cambridge Forum. The book includes contributions from Maya Angelou, Tony Kushner, Pablo Neruda, Henri Nouwen, Marge Piercy and Desmond Tutu. Free. 7:30 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church Street...
...gallery owner Julien Levy hung the black-and-white images of three unsung photographers on his walls, and all three went on to make huge contributions to the 20th century's image bank. The exhibition, entitled Documentary and Anti-graphic Photographs, showcased the early work of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans. This week, just a month after the death of Cartier-Bresson, the longest-surviving member of the trio, the first-ever recreation of Levy's exhibition opens at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris...
...Cartier-Bresson had a final look at his images for the exhibit, taking in his surrealism-influenced shots of Mexico and unselfconscious images of Europe, such as the ambiguous mutual grooming outside a brothel in an image titled Alicante. That last look, says Agn?s Sire, director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, "made him very happy...
Thanks to James Nachtwey for his Appreciation of fellow photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson [Aug. 16]. Nachtwey's descriptions of Cartier-Bresson's artful shots made me aware of all the details that a single photo, like the one of Spanish children playing on a street, can encompass. About a year ago, I started looking at photographs late at night before going to sleep because I wanted to learn about photography and absorb the information that can be uniquely documented in a picture. This way of learning by contemplating photographs, just as Nachtwey did with Cartier-Bresson's pictures, continues. PETRA...