Word: photographers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sakowitz, the Houston superstore that offers the above enticements, has alter-ego trips for Yule and You-all. For $2 million an acre-the buyer provides the acre-Disney Designer Roland Crump will build him and her their own amusement park. Andy Warhol will produce, write, photograph and direct a feature film to suit the patrons' whim...
...most eye-haunting images in the big retrospective of 195 photographs by Harry Callahan is called simply Eleanor, Chicago, 1949. It is the broad, pale face of a big-jawed woman-in fact, Callahan's wife, Eleanor Knapp-rising from Lake Michigan. Her eyes are closed. Her dark hair, parted in the middle, falls in thick ropes that swash in the water. Because the body is hidden by the murky wavelets, the head has a dreaming, apparitional quality, a look reinforced by the waving tendrils of hair. Yet nothing about the photograph invites one to read...
...Harry Callahan undoubtedly ranks as one of the world's great living photographers. His work has never reached a mass audience, however, for he has done no photojournalism and he has had no spectacular subjects: no sublime vistas of landscape (unlike his early mentor, Ansel Adams), no wars, no beautiful women. To earn money, he taught photography classes-since 1961 he has presided, diffidently and sometimes with an acute resentment about wasted time, over the department of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. His public utterances are few, and his letters, if one can judge...
Reeds in Snow. In the Depression years that problem was not often raised What counted more was photography's role in the class struggle. No photographer who, like Callahan, spent his time clicking away at reeds in snow or telephone wires against a blank white sky could be credited with much social commitment. Callahan's desire to rescue one formally perfect image from a thousand failed slices of life seem priestly now, but it must have looked solipsistic then. "His aim," writes MOMA's director of the department of photography, John Szarkowski, "has been not to bend...
Outside Salt Lake's massive Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution, a handful of pickets paraded among the Christmas shoppers with sandwich boards demanding RELEASE GILMORE NOW. "The man I see there is not a guilty killer," said Demonstrator Larry Wood, 30, pointing to a newspaper photograph of the wan Gilmore at the hearing. "He looks like a high beam to me. We Christians should turn the other cheek...