Word: nadar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come easily-by the open-endedness of both painting and sculpture at the time. It was his opportunity and pleasure to explore, with lens and plate, a range of relationships between the aspects of a whole visual culture that was not so accessible to earlier masters of photography like Nadar and Oscar Rejlander. In his 20s, Steichen's prints frankly imitated the "look" of paintings; a famous image of J.P. Morgan, glaring over his bottle nose out of the gloom, comes as near to Titian as photography can, and the gum-print and pigment-print portraits that Steichen made...
...detail. Poussin still tells classic and mythological narratives (The Infant Bacchus Entrusted to the Nymphs), but Manet, one of the fathers of Impressionism concerned with the science of how the eye saw, sketches a woman, flattened, on photographic paper, perhaps borrowed from the great French photographer of the time, Nadar, whose studio housed the first Salon des Impressionistes...
...days when Nadar used to fly in his balloon have given way to days when-people photograph Cambridge High School, Harvard Square, and Daytona Beach. "Contemporary Photographs II" incorporates many of these social landscapes into the second of the Fogg's documents on contemporary happenings in photography. Timothy Carlson '71, photographer writer on the Crimson, pictures Daytona Beach, from weekend college-beerdrinking crowds to V-formation flying birds. But Daytona isn't all beer and birds, it's sex, suds, sand and surf, and 23" Color T.V.'s for sale on beach walls. One couple, whose embrance is hidden...