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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...
Maybe she'd like the river; the sunset would be nice. All that stood between them was her mother and a 35mm lens.
Fellini has kept the color-indeed, heightened it-but drained away the life. He seems to have fastened on the legend only to repudiate it. Seen through his hostile lens, Casanova is a chilly fop whose salon manner is alternately tongue-tied and bombastic. How such a creature manages to...