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...photograph of the riot, which shows the black section of the city on fire, was labeled “Running the Negro Out of Tulsa.” After the riot the black population declined by about one-third. Newspapers at the time are filled with reports of blacks walking along the railroad tracks headed out of town, never to return. The most poignant photograph of the riot shows the burned shell of the Dreamland Threatre, its marquee fallen. Such was the trajectory of Tulsa’s black community...
...left hand corner of a kiosk in the yard, a sign advertising “Let’s Go Amsterdam” asks passers-by, “Want to Pluck a Tulip?” with a photograph of a teenage female figure staring alluringly at her audience. Just a joke...
...Every photograph tells the truth. The question is which truth it tells. The story that Shalhevet Pass's final baby picture told was ghastly. After the 10-month-old girl was shot in the head by a Palestinian sniper in the West Bank city of Hebron last week, the Israeli Foreign Ministry disseminated the picture to the media, with her parents' consent and the rationalization of putting a face to Palestinian violence. She lies on her side, her dead eyes half-open, her blackened lips slack. A trickle of blood beneath her head stains her cheerfully patterned sheets. The photo...
...Cronkhite Living room on Ash Street, and featured the two poets Natasha Trethewey and Brenda Shaughnessy. Each poet has recently published her first book, Domestic Work and Interior With Sudden Joy, respectively. Trethewey read first. Her poems dealt, from many points of view, with a woman in a photograph projected on a screen for the audience. The woman was a prostitute, photographed in Storyville in 1912. Trethewey’s poems reconstructed a life around this woman, superimposing emotions and experience onto the subject images. Her reading style was conventional. Clearly enunciating every syllable and every break between syllables...
...There was beauty as well as provocation in this new aesthetic. William Klein's video installation, Broadway by Light, captures the kinetic grace of Times Square's dancing lights as reflected on the surface of passing cars and wet asphalt. Rudy Burckhardt's photograph of an enormous Coca-Cola billboard dwarfing pedestrians on the street below is a masterpiece of black and white composition. Nor did the pop generation shrink from taking on the most traditional of subjects. In Wesselmann's Great American Nude No. 54, a painted female form sprawls beside a 3-D radiator, a telephone...