Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...working style was simply that of a slightly-more-proficient-than-average snapshooter. He used no equipment other than a 35mm camera that had been given to him as a gift and he preferred to photograph his subjects in a candid fashion, without any of the psychological probing of serious portraiture...
...would like to clear up an error made in the printing of a photograph and caption in the Behavior section [Nov. 24]. The couple depicted are in no sense "troubled parents." Their family is indeed a happy one, with the photograph of them and their children attesting to the fruits of visits in earlier years by the couple only...
...makes creepy nocturnal phone calls to his prospective victims, then goes to their apartments posing as a police investigator and strangles them. He teases the police by sending them a notice of each murder, with a picture of one part of his body cut from a full-length photograph of himself. Minos has a glass eye and sees only half of what most people see, an idea with a potentially interesting connection to the sending of one scrap of his picture at a time or to the imposition of a strict moral standard on victims of only...
...NEED NOT turn beyond the first photograph in this book to understand that cameraman James Klosty could not possibly express more about choreographer Merce Cunningham than that he's an enigma. That first photograph silhouettes Cunningham--turned from the waist, arms stretched overhead, legs rooted apart--like a Klee stick figure, or a Giacometti spider-thin nude, or maybe a twentieth-century version of the Renaissance icon: man as the measure of all things...
MARK HELPRIN LOOKS well-scrubbed. His face, in a vaguely romantic photograph on the back of the dust jacket, is clean-cut and clean-shaven; the face of a liberal, New York-bred college graduate. It comes as no surprise is that he went to Harvard. What is more of a surprise is that he once served in the British merchant navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. In the title story, "A Dove of the East," and in others scattered throughout the book, Helprin re-creates the people and places of his travels. The settings of these...