Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the past few months, Mengele has been seen at the German club in Asunción. Risking discovery, Mengele sometimes drinks too much; one evening, he drunkenly pulled out a pistol and waved it about. Another time he chatted with a visiting West German professor. Each time someone entered...
Yes, and yes. Is it possible, however, that films are beginning to see women through a sharper lens? Or at any rate with a more interesting astigmatism? New women novelists have begun writing about women as creatures who can make noises in the forest, even if no man is there...
Civil War could be converted into art when seen from afar, through a cultural lens, by a noncombatant. It was paintable, as the raw material of American social realism was not.
Another blessing is Doug Slocombe's quick eye for creating atmosphere with his roving camera. In a single shot, he shows the bustle of inner city Philadelphia, then contrasts the street with an aerial view of the majestic abbey. His close-ups of the stained-glass windows in the abbey...
But of sentimentality there is none. Hine's subjects are not "noble workers," abstractions of a class seen from above. They are people living their lives, claiming the viewer's attention only by their irreducible concreteness. This was especially true of Mine's great polemical record-photographs...