Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dichotomy of "portrait vs. candid," and define themselves and their work in those terms. "I don't want to put down candids, but we portraitists have our eyes on something--a moment of grandeur," Bradford Bachrach says. "Candids are for the moment but portraits are for all time." Martin Schweig presents the opposite view. "I prefer candids; in the studio everything is phony except the photographer." Splitting Wedding between "Formal Portraits" and "Candids" (with a short "History" section), Norfleet has enforced this division...
Black and white, color, formal or candid, these photos are steeped in symbolic importance. The participants are visibly tense; they want to get it right, this eternal image. None of the men know what to do with their hands. One of Martin Schweig's brides clutches a bouquet and stares terrified into the camera. A row of Bachrach bridesmaids stand cracking smiles in their porcelain white faces, as alike as the ticky-tacky boxes they stand in front...
...report by Martin Meyerson, president of the university, said that the institution was in serious financial straits even with its successful fund raising and it was taking decisive action to deal with financial problems...
While Hostage to the Devil is not convincing, or satisfying about the nature of possession, Martin does sound a currently pervasive message, a call for a return to certain Christian doctrines. There has been an increased interest in the supernatural among organized churches. The Anglicans have published a new exorcism ritual. Pope Paul VI announced in November 1972 that one of the greatest needs of the Catholic Church "is defense from that evil which is called the devil." After reading Hostage to the Devil, Harvey Cox of the Harvard Divinity School wrote: "It did make me realize that...
...credit, Martin has captured the sense of confusion about moral choices that pervades twentieth century societies. He suggests a reason for it: "Confusion is a prime weapon of evil." But from that premise he asks us to take a dubious leap of faith with him and accept the Devil as the force wielding that weapon. It is a view that will encounter great hostility from psychologists and social historians; still, Hostage to the Devil, for all its flaws, advances an old theory about an old problem in a new and challenging...