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...California made its own: the American film industry, in all its splendors and miseries. In architecture and design, a certain amount from Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry, little of whose best work was actually done in the state; and more from such European exiles as the two Viennese Modernist architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler, who took refuge on the Pacific shore and found themselves in the company of assorted shrinks, religious prophets, musicians and writers, from Aldous Huxley and Thomas Mann to Henry Miller and Nathanael West. A lot of photography, of course, especially ultrasharp f/64...
...just as Day was becoming a world-famous photographer, his Boston studio burned down and most of his existing work was destroyed, along with his extensive collection of bric-a-brac. Persevering, he bought new equipment and traveled to the Hampstead Institute in Virginia, where he did his most modernist work. Hampstead was a progressive "college" for black and Native American students. The pictures that Day did there are flat, forthright portraits of confident subjects. They feature beautiful, dark gray tones set in a black field, punctuated by the whites of his subjects' eyes. In this series, Day seems...
...time travel, but the wallpaper and period matting do a great deal to contextualize Day's photographs. What might seem nave, blasphemous, or offensive if it were produced today comes off as eccentric, or perhaps quaint. Day's oeuvre becomes a historical artifact. His style peaked with the relatively modernist Hampstead series, but it reached its apotheosis in the much later "Orpheus" series, which portrays a young boy in the woods holding a lyre. "Nude Youth with Lyre," from 1907, is "Marble Faun" redone at a much higher level of technical mastery, and, more importantly, it is the work...
...modernist buildings like the Science Center or the Holyoke Center--erected in the '60s and early '70s--reflected a rebellious Harvard willing to break with its traditionalist past and embrace new modes of thought...
These projects take a modernist approach to design, using it not just as a means for production but also as an art form in itself...