Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the first photographers aspired to art in the 19th century, they were profoundly disturbed by the camera's sharp and indiscriminating eye. As a result, they tried to make photographs that resembled paintings. Using classical, posed subject matter (half-draped nudes by a mountain stream and the like), they manipulated the photographic process to produce fuzzy, vaguely romantic images. After World War I, art photographers finally began to come to terms with the nature of their medium. Photographers such as Steiglitz and Strand discovered the artistic possibilities of sharp focus and modern subject matter. Their approach was formal, carefully...
...main focus of attention from its context. A different form of artistic decision making is involved; subjects are not stripped from their surrounding chaos, but seen in relation to it. The photographs attempts to bring artistic meaning to the commonplace Gas stations, cars, and telephone booths rather than mountain and desert landscapes are common subjects. The snapshot tries to reflect urban sprawl; if the images seems tawdry and disorganized it is because their subject...
...Deva (see THE WORLD). Shepherd first encountered the elaborate ceremonies of the Hindu kingdom in 1956 at the coronation of Birendra's father, Mahendra. The correspondent arrived for that occasion aboard a rickety DC-3 that "slithered low over the Himalayan foothills, searching for the gap in the mountains through which we slipped into the Katmandu Valley." He has since reported on coronations of two other Himalayan monarchs, the Kings of Bhutan and Sikkim. Over the years, the Shangri-la quality of the mountain kingdoms has been diminished by the encroachment of Western civilization. "The one-room thatch shack...
...Hartz Mountain Pet Foods...
...this mountain of cultural prejudice, Janet Barkas has planted The Vegetable Passion, a monomaniacal history of herbivores from Neanderthal man to the Hare Krishna people. Between her gargoyle book ends, this vegetarian convert presents a series of case histories. Each serves to dispel the notion that vegetable dieters are as alike as peas in a pod. Here is the early Christian theologian-and heretic-Origen, who castrated himself, and the American Benjamin Franklin, who did not. Here is Pythagoras, who denounced beans, and Horace Greeley, who renounced coffee. Here are the diverse saints and satans of human history: Gandhi...