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Again and again, however, the eye goes back to a more sober image, Canyon Country, California, June 1983, one of Sternfeld's infrequent portraits. A man sits before the camera with his arm around a young girl who appears to be his daughter. He looks at the lens. She looks...
Rhodes, a novelist and social chronicler (Looking for America), has a firm hold on the fundamentals of nuclear physics. He describes the first millisecond of the atomic age in New Mexico with eerie precision: "The firing circuit closed; the X-unit discharged; the detonators at 32 detonation points simultaneously fired...
Some 170,000 years later, on that minor planet, man had evolved, developed technology, built great cities and, in an effort to better understand his place in the universe, developed great instruments that could peer deep into space. It was not until then, on the night of Feb. 23, 1987...
Klein worked with a locomotive verve and an indifference to the holy writ of camera technique. At a time when the nondistorting 50-mm lens (the kind that is still standard on most 35-mm cameras) was deemed the only fit instrument for recording truth, Klein used a wide angle...
Klein also took to plunging in among crowds to shoot point blank, so that faces meet the lens with mostly tentative expressions. As Manet had done a century earlier in his paintings, Klein recognized in the suspended gaze one of the chief signifiers of the modern temper. But judged by...