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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understand what the Verba committee set out to do and why the process was a failure, we should go back to the first meeting at which representatives of MSA expressed to Dean Spence their concern regarding Harvard's embarrassingly low number of minority faculty members. Spence said that his office could not interfere with the autonomy of the departments in hiring decisions, so he invited MSA to talk directly to the department chairs about the problem...
...shouldn't it serve as the pencil of history too? If faces and flowers could inscribe themselves on the photographic plate, why not battles, ribbon- cutting ceremonies and earthquakes? By 1839, when the invention of photography was made public, a number of illustrated periodicals were already flourishing. But it would require time and a series of technological advances before they could take advantage of the possibilities that the new kind of picture making offered...
FOOTNOTE: *To vote for your favorite news photo in this issue, write to Photojournalism, P.O. Box 6000, Radio City Station, New York, N.Y. 10185. Give the page number and headline of the caption. Sometime after Dec. 15, 1989, we'll publish the results...
...history of photojournalism is a saga of technological progress, commercial greed and individual heroism. It includes a shocking number of wars and tragedies -- events with the visual power that compels people to buy newspapers and magazines. But the development of news photography is also the story of how cameras became smaller and film more sensitive, so that journalists could capture the look of the factory, the dance hall, the dictator's study, the sharecropper's cabin and other venues of daily life. These are all here, the momentous and the mundane alike...
...source of our fascination with catastrophe: it could stem from an intrinsic human penchant for the morbid, from a profound national boredom rooted in suburbanization, from an intense nervousness about what the future holds for those who lived through the profligate America of the 1980s, or from any other number of conditions or some combination thereof...