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Esau was the hunger, the simple, direct son. I preferred the imaginative one, the smooth, clever Jacob who sat in my tent watching the rages of Isaac turn first on the son within himself, the pitiful kitten fathered by a lion, careful of its stride, watching slow rage then turn on us like the thunder of winter sleet driving in from the mountains. So it wasn't for Jacob alone I schemed to steal Esau's blessing, laughing, giddy, a tenor different from Abraham's hard laugh...
...importance cannot be photographed." So one of the messages of the show is clear: in the judgment of MOMA?the first American museum to treat photography systematically as an art and perhaps the most powerful taste-forming museum in the country?the documentary or "concerned" tradition, which ran from Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine through figures like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Margaret Bourke-White and W. Eugene Smith, has petered...
...children either dance through the photographs with wild gestures and extreme expressions or stare soulfully out in an effort to grab the viewer's attention. Each individual picture is meant to bowl one over with its content; Levitt follows more in the tradition of social documentarists Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis in her approach. Evans' photographs work on a much more subtle plane. He prepares carefully planned sequences and hopes the effect of repeated exposures will work to move the viewer...
...reversal of political stereotypes, several Republicans-including Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, Pennsylvania's John Heinz III and New York's Jacob Javits-supported the increased spending. Argued Brooke: "It is cruel to look to our lowest-income citizens as the front line in the battle against inflation...
Lecture: Dance Center Lecture Series-- "Color Slides of 40 Years at Jacob's Pillow." John Lindquist, dance photographer. 2 p.m., Agassiz Living Room. Free...