Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congratulations on your excellent photograph of Nottingham University. At first glance, I was unable to account for the absence of student life on the lawns and lake, but on reading the article it became quite clear that at the time we were either working hard, at the chemist's buying tranquilizing pills, or attending group therapy classes...
...earlier works, though his palette was muted, the focus was as sharp as a photograph. Gradually, the brushwork loosened, until it seemed as if a veil had dropped between the artist and reality. His landscapes may be literal, but they are seen as if in a dream (see color), his people, almost always empty-eyed, seem to live in a trance. They are sleepwalkers, whose minds and bodies are a world apart. And for the most part, they are children, usually adolescent girls...
GARY: La Dolce Vita. Federico Fellini's masterpiece exposes the decadent uppercrust that haunts Romo's Via Veneto, Spectacular photograph and unnumbered orgies spot-light a memorable if not continually absorbing expose...
...aerial photograph of Auschwitz extermination camp that takes the breath away with its immensity: mile on mile of barracks, a metropolis of death...
...describes himself as "angry or outraged, either word will do," and, like most angry young men, shoots his outrage off in all directions. His hero is the persecuted individual, his villain the persecuting mass; he senses "instances of inhumanity all around me." A newspaper story, a political campaign, a photograph in a book-anything may trigger a painting. Says Strombotne: "I react violently to practically everything...