Word: photographic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That's a photograph of a waterfall on the dust jacket of A Ship Made of Paper (Ecco; 352 pages), Scott Spencer's very fine new novel about wild love. But don't imagine it's there because his reckless lovers--one white, one black--find a happy ending at Niagara Falls. This is a book about love as a torrent, a force of nature that overwhelms families, harrows lives and lays waste to whole towns as it thunders through. Love may be our only hope, but when you put this book down--not an easy thing...
Nkosi’s decision to call this photograph “Just plain African Americans” is interesting, given that the only figures depicted are a lone black woman and a white television personality. Is Judge Judy somehow “African American”? Are the “plain African Americans” the non-existent inhabitants of the deserted chairs? Is the woman with the magazine somehow supposed to represent her entire race? Like the title of the exhibit, much of this piece’s power is in its ambiguity and the questions...
Bellows produced all of the works in the series within a six-week period in the spring of 1918, adamant to photograph the most difficult of war crimes...
...pant pioneer will get, anyway, living it up in the blistering spotlight that is the WB’s “The Surreal Life.” Yet he’s still way below Lamar Alexander on at least one barometer of notoriety—the celebrity photograph page on www.benjaminbolger.com, where Alexander’s mug is pictured much higher on the list than Hammer’s. Benjamin B. Bolger, the 27-year-old proprietor of this personal webpage and teaching fellow (TF) for several popular courses at Harvard, posts photographs of himself on his website...
...contradictions of the “peace movement” crystallized for me when I saw a photograph of two bikini-clad Spanish women with mock suicide bomb cartridges strapped to them, holding a sign with “No Guerra” scrawled on it. The moral inscrutability of last week’s protesters is remarkable. How can one be for “peace” and yet ignore Saddam’s war on his own people or, like these women, support Palestinian war? How can one be against the accidental death of civilians during...