Word: photographers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Turkish army officials delayed a U.S. Embassy request to photograph the site for four days. The U.S. military attaches finally allowed to visit the excavation building were able to photograph only "the half of the room that had some light in it," she said...
...been used by the military, the Jefferson County sheriffs office is the first law-enforcement agency to develop a similar device. Some local residents complain that a craft laden with explosives and controlled by inexperienced lawmen could easily become a menace. Moreover, if Bailey also uses the plane to photograph crime and accident sites, the RPV could turn into an airborne invader of a citizen's privacy...
HENRY HOLMES SMITH, professor of photography at Indiana University, friend of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, renowned avant-garde photographer, and an explorer and experimenter in his own photography, once warned against too quickly dismissing the unconventional and unfamiliar photograph as a mere gimmick. "Ultimately," he wrote, "each of us may find, to our surprise that our intolerance often rests on ignorance and our misunderstandings, our accusations of obscurity, unintelligibility, or falseness spring from too narrow a view of a medium that offers an intensity of expression and a range of images much greater than is generally seen." Smith's warning...
...only characteristic which really unites all the artists, however, is an irreverence toward the accepted rules about what a photograph can or cannot be, can or cannot do. In an effort to express their private and often idiosyncratic views of modern life, these artists apply paint, beads and hair to their pictures, cut them up and stitch them together. They explore the artistic potential of old techniques--like gum bichromate, solarization, and cyanotype--and new chemical processes like polaroid and 3-M color. They borrow images from television and porno-magazines, create scenes in the darkroom which were never seen...
...Fogg exhibit is the diversity of artistic issues and problems covered by the works. Several artists--numerically the smallest group--are primarily concerned with exploring purely formal qualities of design, texture, color and light. Both Linda Conner and Paul Kohl blur and soften the contours of the scenes they photograph and emphasize contrasts of light and dark--Conner in order to turn commonplace scenes into quiet worlds of peace and timelessness, Kohl in order to create beautifully balanced compositions of glowing geometric shapes...