Word: photographeer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harry Callahan testifies to the photographer's involvement with the graphic arts. His "Multiple Exposure Tree" with fine-lined branches appears to be an ink sketch rather than a photograph; the circular motion, spontaneity and simplicity of coal black against white evoke the calligraphy and bold brush strokes of Japanese artists...
...existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute if, as an many seem to think. It needs one: and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a watercolor is inferior to as oil, or whether a drawing, an etching or a photograph is not as important as either is inconsequent. To have to despite something in order to respect something is a sign of importance. Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization...
...work's statement explains: "During a ten minute period of time on March 17, 1969 ten photographs were made each documenting the location in Central Park where an individually distinguishable bird call was heard. Each photograph was made with the camera pointed in the direction of the sound. That direction was then walked toward by the auditor until the instant that the next call was heard, at which time the next photograph was made and the next direction taken...
...take an aerial photograph of a place like Quang Tri, and then you take a photograph after B-52s have been over it. You can't believe what happened. What bothers me is that when you're there, you accept it. You rationalize it. You condone it. You say it's right because they are the enemy, and then when you come home, you can't believe that you didn't have the courage to open your mouth against that kind of murder, that kind of devastation over people, over animals...
...Lampoon parody of Cosmopolitan magazine featured a full-length nude photograph of Henry A. Kissinger '50, President Nixon's chief foreign policy adviser and one of Harvard's better known ex-professors...