Word: photographers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience for the dramas we are trying to breathe life back into today. The testimony of these men and women is both invaluable and unique--a mountain of statistics and doctoral theses has no more legitimacy and is often far less enlightening than a single Dorothea Lange photograph of an Appalachian mother or a waitress musing into Studs Terkel's tape recorder about the joys of serving tables...
...sympathy goes out to Photographer Kent Henderson of the Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, who was sworn at by Richard Nixon. Being assigned to photograph a President can be hazardous to your health and wealth. I know. I was fired by Nixon and his cronies for wearing a plaid jacket [during the swearing-in at Nixon's second Inauguration]. At least Henderson still has his job. I would rather have been "cussed out" than...
Still, Brassai is not a parochial artist as the sixtytwo photographs on display in M.I.T.'s Hayden Gallery brilliantly prove. Brassai's works confront us as documents and as works of art. They present the appearance of a specific moment in history yet manage to escape a pernicious topicality. Brassai takes pictures that beckon us to return again and again, like his portrait of a peasant sleeping on a train, oblivious to the landscape whizzing by outside his window, his worn and grizzled head thrown back against the seat, his mouth a gaping black hole. Or his photograph of Kiki...
...Theatre Collection, a department of Houghton Library, was founded in 1915, and maintains an extensive books and photograph collection as well as first drafts, prompt books, set and costume sketches and production notes from the theater around the world...
Martha Mahard, staff assistant to Newlin, described the collection's research correspondence and photograph orders as "international" and "amazing." She said the collection is used by students preparing Harvard productions as well as by doctoral candidates from many universities...