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WOMAN IN THE MIRROR RICHARD AVEDON By the time of his death last year, it was the general view that Avedon was one of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium. Sometimes the general view gets it exactly right. This endlessly fascinating collection, devoted to pictures of women, makes plain the phenomenal range of his imagination and his deep grasp of what can be said by the human form and face. His high-stepping fashion shots, his cheeky celebrity portraits, his images of grandes dames as they dwindle sublimely into old age--not one of them is less...
...considered art," Spiegelman says. Slowly, that attitude evolved as people learned to appreciate comics in all their uniqueness. "Comics require that the viewer read pictures, not look at them," says Chris Ware, author-artist of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and one of the medium's reigning grand masters. "This is a peculiar means of apprehension that really has no precedent in Western...
...train for clients have been "like badly wired electrical systems," but the senses of the pure dingo - stubborn but smart - are undiluted. If they're not patrolling airports anytime soon, Fyffe hopes her research might at least win the dingo some respect. "There has to be a happy medium without killing them all off," she says. "Otherwise our grandchildren will be looking at pictures of them in books, just like the thylacine." Australians must decide whether it matters to them that the dingo's howl may soon vanish from the desert dusk...
...BOOK WAS BETTER: Both a coming-of-age love story and a treatise on geisha manners and mores, the very long Arthur Golden book reveled in its very novelness. Fiction is the ideal medium for a life story. It can span generations and take lots of scenic detours, and the reader will usually stay along for the ride. A movie has to keep on truckin' down the narrative highway...
...hour lecture.“I’m 59 years old…I have to go over things a little more often,” Burgess said. “[Podcasting is] a brilliant way for us oldies to learn.”Malan sees the new medium as a practical application of the material he teaches. “Rather than simply talk about multimedia with our students, we wanted to show it to them and create it for them,” he wrote.Only registered students of “Understanding Computers and the Internet?...