Word: photographers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also hit the big time when some nude photographs of her husband raised hell in Seattle in 1915. Or in 1926, when Edward Weston wrote to her about her print "Glacial Lily:" "This is fine! It is the best thing in the show, Imogen, and if you keep up to that standard, you will be one of a handful of important photographers in America--or anywhere." Her reaction to his praise is typical for her: "Of course, I had been photographing for twenty-five years." In 1931, Martha Graham called Imogen "the only photographer before whom I can create...
Occasionally, she will photograph herself in a mirror--in a funhouse with her grand-children or in the window of a junkshop on San Francisco's Geary Street. Her figure is a strange one, a tiny body swathed in a black cape, an intriguingly wrinkled, amused looking face with a receding chin, the light catching the mirrors of the small, multi-colored Indian cap she always wears. "I photograph anything that can be exposed to light," she says, but complains about too much philosophizing on photography. "People will just have to look at my stuff and make up their...
...Overdrive--The Voice of the American Trucker," proclaims the magazine's cover; "The Price of Truth $1.50." Below this modest legend appears a full color photograph of a gleaming Peterbilt, or Kenworth, or a White Freightliner, with all chrome bumpers and wheels and stacks, always accompanied by a busty young model very scantily attired...
...gone in other, less romantic directions, of which Adams is intolerant. "Whenever I see a picture of a garbage dump," he huffed to a reporter during a New York visit in 1972, "I am not the least bit moved. I have a garbage dump; I could take a photograph of my ash can that would be just as revolting as anything you can get here in Harlem." No won der Adams' ideas about his art seem quite pickled in nostalgia to a generation of younger photographers whose sensibilities are roused by the urban mess, from trash to glitter. Adams...
...MANY OTHER Cambridge art galleries, the only remnants of their existence are defunct listings in the Yellow Pages. The shop which used to house Perspectives on Mass Ave. is now a crafts shop. The Paul Shuster Art Gallery on Mt. Auburn St. is now a photograph enlarger, the Big Picture...