Word: newtonism
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...crowd at photographer Helmut Newton's show isn't what one usually finds at an exhibition of fashion photography. Sure, there are some beautiful people - fashion editors, models and photographers - but there are also a suspiciously large number of men in trenchcoats. The site of the show, London's Barbican Centre, is near the financial district, but it's hard to imagine that these middle-aged, white-collar workers just stumbled upon the third-floor exhibition, called "Work," during a lunchtime stroll. No, the truth is that the work for which Newton is best-known - photographs of tall, domineering...
...Newton doesn't mind. In the 1980s the Berlin-born Australian citizen (he now lives in Monte Carlo) tried his hand at pornography, shooting for the likes of Playboy. And he has proclaimed that he intends to become less politically correct as he gets older. He turned 80 last year and is selling better than ever. Earlier this month "Sex and Landscapes," the first commercial sale of Newton's work in two years, opened at the De Pury et Luxembourg Art gallery in Zurich. Even before the opening, some 40 prints sold for $30,000 each. This fall the Mary...
...perfectly ordinary people that stretched along cordoned-off roadsides from Hopkinton to the heart of Boston. These people were not easy to miss. The chain was dense in some places and rather sparse in others, but these were people for whom the police departments of Hopkinton, Natick, Wellesley Newton and even Boston itself were stopping traffic; they were ordinary people who, with no special preparation, had climbed out of bed that morning at a savagely early hour, perhaps driven a ways, and started to walk...
...Harvard mens soccer team (3-2, 1-0 Ivy) suffered its second straight loss as it dropped a 3-2 decision against Boston College (4-2, 3-1 Big East) at the Newton Campus Soccer Field yesterday...
...arrive at the Levinthal-Sidman Jewish Community Center. The irony that a Jewish girl has to hide her religion in Newton, which is largely Jewish itself (much less in a Jewish Community Center) is not lost...