Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Daily News' front-page Saturday morning story on the march was accompanied by one photograph--a picture of a Communist Party official making a statement that Communists controlled the Mobilization. The New Times kept its feelings pretty much on the editorial page where Saturday morning it condemned the demonstration as ineffective, both morally and politically...
...than an aspect of one person. For that reason, the subject's name often is not used as the title of the picture. The viewer must put emotion into Marian Palfri's flashbulb picture of the sphinx-faced Negro woman, "Wife of a Victim of a Mob Lynching." A photograph by Dorothea Lange changes from a picture of a smiling grandmother to a beaming representation of boundless green nostalgia: "God Bless Nora Kennally, Country Clare, Ireland...
Diane Arbus is representative of this modern trend. She has photographed new subjects (transvestites, homosexuals and fat nudists), and in this exhibit has a picture. "Identical Twins" that is quite modern in several aspects. It is a print made from only half of a 35-mm negative that has been enlarged and cropped so that it is surrounded on three sides by thick black lines (the unexposed edges of the film). This produces what is called by scientists the "orientation response," and by artists, a pun on the ambiguous relationship between art (the process of creation) and reality. Remember Blow...
...which would have been John Kennedy's 50th birthday, the Post Office Department will issue a 13? stamp bearing his likeness, a photograph taken during the 1960 campaign. A part of the department's "prominent-American series," the stamp carries a 13? value so that it may circulate widely abroad as the postage on one-half ounce of international surface mail...
First, he bought an enlarged aerial photograph of the mob scene, ruled it off in 1-in. squares, and used a magnifying glass to count heads. After four hours of eye-wracking work, he reached the total: 2,804-less than half of the swollen newspaper estimates. To find a mathematical short cut to more precise estimation, he showed up at other rallies, noted that the plaza was divided into 22-ft. squares. By counting the number of students in several squares and dividing, he was able to compute the average area occupied by an individual. This varied, he deduced...