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With each passing year, Rodin emerges more clearly as the most profound, most expressively varied sculptor since Michelangelo, and here is a book that demonstrates why. In one superb photograph after another, the reader can trace the astonishing career of an artist who, though basically in the great classic tradition of Western sculpture, broke through formal bonds all his life. The text, an admirably incisive critique, enhances this tribute to Rodin on the 50th anniversary of his death...
...most recent issue, The New Journal introduced a genre which it calls a magazine "screenplay." Thirty-eight little photographs are spread over four Journal pages, with the text of a one-act farce interspersed, so that when we read: "Three toes! Count 'em! Three toes the guy's got missing!", we see a man on his knees holding up three fingers and peering at a foot that juts into the photograph. Or when the businessman who happens to have his foot stuck in the sidewalk says to himself, in Oral Roberts style, "Take up thy foot and WALK...
Wiseman did have permission from the state corrections commissioner and other authorities to make the film, and in the end the controversy may be settled on the narrow grounds of just what was agreed to. The state contends that Wiseman had promised not to photograph incompetent inmates and to give the state final review. Unfortunately the agreement was largely oral, and is wide open to dispute. But it may be easier to settle that than to reconcile the thornier question of how much privacy an insane convict is entitled to in the face of the public's right...
...that he would not, and did not, photograph certain specified inmates, among them Albert De Salvo, the confessed Boston Strangler...
...study of recruiting advertisements and brochures reveals that many companies are changing early job assignments and advertising emphasis to fit student interests. An advertisement by Phillips Petroleum features a photograph of a young executive of the company, and his own words: "Phillips have given me a chance to 'create' myself ... I feel I am becoming a more complete person." He describes how his changing interests led him from the lab to the semi-plant, to process design, to market research, to international sales development...