Word: nadar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City and Philadelphia, churning out likenesses of glassy-eyed sitters who looked as though they had been whacked with a board. But it was in England and France that photography took on the character of an art in the work of men like the Parisian caricaturist Nadar, who brought a warm-blooded gravity to camera portraiture...
...mark the event, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston assembles a splendid survey of the greatest sights captured by a shutter, from Nadar to Walker Evans, from Western landscape to the world at war. It was a century and a half in which men and women looking through a lens remade the world in their own images...
...Ingrid Boyum (H) d. Areta Nadar...
...other fronts, the reformers have had less impact. Investigative groups ranging from Ralph Nadar's organization to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have raised serious doubts about the test makers' claims, but policies here at Harvard and elsewhere haven't changed significantly as a result. Two leading critics of the SAT, and of ETS itself, are Harvard-affiliated doctors Warner V. Slack and Douglas Porter, who have combined their respective backgrounds in computer medicine and psychology to produce a detailed critique of the test and its administrators. Their most important research on the issue appeared last year in the Harvard...
...this in their analysis, adding that ETS itself quotes studies lacking concurrent controls when the findings suit its ends. Not so, responds Cameron, who accuses his critics of allowing "social aims" to shape their research and makes passing reference to the fact that Slack was a classmate of Ralph Nadar's at Princeton in the early 1950s, "and maybe that means something...