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...rejected hard-and-fast distinctions between painting and poetry. He loved words. PHOTO, announces the writing on a 1925 canvas that, being mostly blank, is clearly not a photograph; and then, around a shapeless blob of blue pigment, the wiry script declares that "this is the color of my dreams." Yearning is fixed in a depicted absence. "In my pictures there are tiny forms in vast empty spaces," Miró once explained. "Empty space, empty horizons, empty planes, everything that is stripped has always impressed...
...Rome's Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore. There in a plastic bag the family found a severed ear that investigators believed to be Giorgio's. A second caller directed a reporter from the Rome daily Il Messaggero to another garbage can, in Piazza Barberini, where the photograph was found, accompanied by two messages. One, from Anna Calissoni, was addressed to Pope John Paul II. "I pray you," the note read, "to intercede in an unofficial and discreet manner with my family so that they may free us from this torment and allow us to regain our human dignity...
Bentkowski sums up the total effect of the section: "A photograph, being immediate and specific, theoretically cannot be an abstraction. But these pictures, combined with our visual memories of events from magazines, newspapers and TV, take on the power of abstraction. They tell, in capsule, the story of 1983, a year brilliantly seen through the camera's lens, thanks to the skill-even the genius-of the photographers who took them...
TIME'S readers [Nov. 2] criticized you for publishing the picture of the dead helicopter pilot on the Grenada beach. War is not pretty. This photograph showed the harsh realities of the invasion...
This lack of restraint sometimes even extends to cases involving children. When it turned out that a previously identified kidnap victim in Chicago, an eleven-year-old girl, had also been raped, the Sun-Times published the girl's photograph with the word "rape" next to it. The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press published the names of parents who had been charged with child sex abuse, identifying their children as among the victims. Says Managing Editor Deborah Howell: "We felt readers had a legitimate interest in knowing if their children had associated with the accused parents...