Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preferring color photography, Talisman concentrates on producing tones that integrate a picture as much by color as by subject and composition. Typical, for example, is his photograph of Madrid in which a white sky forms the background to a college of buildings in various shades of brown, with beige highlights where the sun hits directly...
...suggestive of a dancer, with a man standing nearby looking down at her. Along the diagonal of their heads and quite out of the light, hangs a painting of a wild bacchanalian rape scene. It is only when one's eyes reach this painting that the formality of the photograph begins to dissolve into sham and one notices that the seated woman's companion may not have quite so placid and unexcited an expression on his face as one first thought...
...hair, wondrous chestnut, something like an October leaf in the northern climate, yet when she faced you there was only a long face, oily, with eyes two small periwinkles, something like a parrot's beak for nose, and that huge ridiculous chin copied from a wrestler's photograph...
Even some of the few who refused have added nuggets to Randall's correspondence. When Admiral Hyman Rickover's secretary replied that the admiral never signed his name for anyone he did not know personally, Randall wrote right back, sending along a photograph of himself. (It didn't work.) He has kind notes from representatives of Jackie Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Albert Schweitzer and Winston Churchill saying that they are simply too busy to send autographs. When he tried to get Caryl Chessman's signature, however, he got only a steely note from an assistant warden...
...refrigerators at 20% under. But Mexican shoppers nearly overran the store, sometimes scooping up goods so fast that the brothers had to lock the doors before closing hours. Borrowing a spy-movie technique, department stores staked out a cameraman in a room across from the store to photograph unloading trucks, then threatened wholesalers with the loss of bigger business...