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Arriving in Paris in 1924, Hungarian-born Gyula Halász was anything but a photographer. A painter and occasional journalist, he even confessed to despising the art form. But he was a night owl, attracted to a city couched in the [an error occurred while processing this directive] glow of street lamps and dense mist. Nocturnal Paris was, to him, a "world of pleasure, of love, vice, crime, drugs ? Paris at its most alive." And best illuminating it called for a camera. The work of Brassaï, as Halász became in 1932 (meaning "from Brass...
...DIED. Vladimir Tretchikoff, 92, globetrotting, self-taught painter dubbed the "King of Kitsch" for massively popular works including Chinese Girl, one of the best-selling art prints in history; in Cape Town. Born in Kazakhstan, Tretchikoff fled to Manchuria with his family after the Russian Revolution and traveled widely in Asia, settling in South Africa in 1946. While critics blasted his colorful paintings of exotic beauties, fans lined up to buy his cheap reproductions, prompting the painter to remark that the main difference between himself and Van Gogh was that he was rich...
Around that time Morley was given his first Kodak Brownie, and later, as a struggling painter in England, he found the camera useful for recording what he couldn't draw. From 1960, when he was asked to document the first of more than 100 West End plays, it provided his livelihood. Despite the stylistic constraints, his lens would draw something alluring from the shadows. What came into focus was not so much celebrity as the public's fascination for it. In 1963, Morley was invited by Beatles manager Brian Epstein to Liverpool, where he photographed the band's birthplace...
...Highway 1, which at times seems more "mono" than "multi," that success is not always apparent; sometimes the bush feels like a decaying museum. Look a little deeper, spend a little time, and the country reveals itself: the hardbitten farmer with a greenie tinge and the Aboriginal painter who likes the patterns and colors in her works (and even more so, the cash from sales of dotty art) defy attempts at categorization. Such layers of identity, and the diversity of the suburbs, schools and shopping malls in the towns and cities the national highway connects, will one day be embedded...
Along with sports and the family business, a passion Elkann shared with his grandfather was art. The creative DNA has multiplied through his author father and painter mother. "Artists have a sensibility that others don't have," he says. "They have a way of reading into the future." And so, in their own way, do business leaders. They just tend to have less time. Fiat's Fortunes [This article contains charts. Please see hardcopy of magazine...