Word: photographers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work comes out of, and produces, a powerfully unsentimental sense of isolation, loneliness, despair, carried within the landscapes' inscrutable hard-lit beauty. The distance from which people are seen in Meyerowitz's work, and their frequent absence, arises, presumably, from the slow view camera's inability to photograph near or unposed figures without messily slurring them, and from Meyerowitz's inclination to see people as shapes, colors and surfaces, rather than as personalities. The few posed portraits in both shows are notable for a peculiarly aloof and gentle psychological numbness...
...RECENT, highly publicized show of American photography at the New York Museum of Modern Art called "Mirrors and Windows," an attempt was made to distinguish two ideas of what a photograph is: either "a mirror, reflecting a portrait of the artist who made it...or a window, through which one might better know the world." (This from the show's catalogue essay, written by the museum's director of photography, John Szarkowski). In reviewing "Mirrors and Windows" for The New Republic, John Canaday wrote a reactionary two-part article entitled "Polluted Birthright." "The pollutant I am referring to," Canaday explained...
...next day the Tribune grabbed Stein for an interview, and the electronic media soon followed. Not to be outdone, the Trib pulled a scoop of its own: An enormous page one photograph of Gacy chained to his jail bed. The guard who sold the photo to the paper was fired. On New Year's Eve, both papers ran special sections. The Sun-Times's "Weird World of John Wayne Gacy" featured an interview with a teenage male whore named Jaime who remembered seeing Gacy cruise the gay bars on the Near North Side. Gacy once picked...
...years, conspiracy theorists have claimed that a second gunman was located on the knoll. Their view was supported by some witnesses who said they saw a puff of smoke rise from that site during the shooting. In addition, a photograph made at the time showed a policeman running toward the knoll rather than toward the wounded President. Some critics of the Warren Commission even contend that photos may show the shadowy image of a man partially concealed behind a tree on the knoll...
Gandhi was clearly looking forward to her brief confinement, which is due to end when the legislature recesses, possibly this week. Before she checked into prison, the National Herald, mouthpiece of her Congress-Indira Party (Congress I), published a special edition whose black-bordered front page carried a faked photograph of her smiling beatifically from behind bars. Thousands of pro-Indira protesters poured into the streets of Indian cities setting fire to buses and buildings and hanging Prime Minister Morarji Desai in effigy; at least 15 people died and Gandhi's followers claimed that 32,000 demonstrators were arrested...