Word: photographeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT 20 August 1890-17 February 1937 Since I was born after Lovecraft died, I knew of him only through seeing his books' lurid covers on paperback stands in airports and bus waiting rooms. The usual dust-jacket photograph of the author shows a youngish man with a lantern jaw and a rather startled expression. A bit of research at my university library revealed that his entire oeuvre consists of some 53 stories, plus assorted fragments and collaborations. Yet the writer has become a sort of cult figure and his books sell both consistently and well-over...
...shocked and disturbed to find my photograph on page 23 of your May 14 issue along with others alleged to be involved in the Watergate affair and its alleged subsequent coverup. As private trial counsel to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President and other related committees since June 22, 1972, I have vigorously defended my clients in civil litigation in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and shall continue to do so. The words placed under my photograph suggest that I am guilty of illegal acts and unethical conduct, and I again state...
...even to peers, her contemporaries were instead formed by a host of advertising slogans, magazine spreads and television screenplays. Maynard confesses that at 13 she was virtually enslaved by the fashion pages of Seventeen (she still has every copy since 1965), nearly traumatized by LIFE'S cover photograph of an unborn baby ("that eerie fetus") and mesmerized by the very worst of TV ("five thousand hours of my life into this...
...papers. Receiving all the FBI reports in what was called a "superspecial" investigation, they were informed that Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Lewis Fielding, had refused to divulge any information in his files on the grounds that they were privileged. The plumbers decided to visit Fielding's office and photograph the files...
Saul Steinberg has always refused to be photographed: at the desk where he produces some of the sharpest, most visionary cartoons of our time, Steinberg keeps a couple of special masks, made from paper bags and decorated with parodies of his own face, to thwart any would-be portraitist. As if a photograph would catch his image in a distortion he could not control. As if being so revealed would endanger his perspective as self-appointed "inspector" of modern life--a term which is also the title of his new book of cartoons...