Word: photographic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...practice currently stands in America, there are up to three parts to a proper Christmas card. First, there is the card itself, which is always purchased from Hallmark—no exceptions. Second, there is a heavily staged photograph of the entire family, most often in front of the fireplace with the family dog. Third, there is the dreaded holiday newsletter...
...wouldn’t be completely absurd to look for “Looking at Landscapes; Environmental Puzzles from Three Photographers,” at an art museum—the small, gray room that holds the exhibit’s 52 photographs could easily be part of one. But in order to catch the collection of works by Alex MacLean, Anne Whiston Spirn, and Camilo José Vergara, students have to walk past the Fogg and the Sackler and head to the Harvard Museum of Natural History instead. The reward for the journey? A new awareness of natural phonomena...
...less than a year after graduating from Harvard College, Michael C. Rockefeller ’60 joined the Peabody Museum’s 1961 New Guinea Expedition as a sound recordist and photographer. Shortly after the expedition, Rockefeller disappeared in New Guinea while on a personal trip to photograph and collect Asmat art. Forty-two photographs from the more than 4000 negatives he left behind are currently showing at the Peabody. Though Rockefeller left few notes to guide the selection of his photographs—rendering the transformation from archive to exhibition largely interpretive—this lucid and organized...
...Elizabeth Vargas of ABC News questioned the journalistic integrity of: A) Marie Claire's doctoring a photograph so that Vargas appeared to be breast-feeding while reporting the news B) Barbara Walters' two-night special on all the ridiculous things she has said in interviews over the years C) Dan Rather's doing one-armed push-ups on The Daily Show D) Geraldo's mustache...
...late 1960s I encountered Pynchon's first novel, V. Duly enchanted, I swore that eventually I would decipher every one of his enigmas. That Pynchon himself was one of them, that he never gave interviews or permitted his photograph to be published, only made him more irresistible. To this day his only public "appearances" have been two guest spots on The Simpsons. Both times he was wearing a bag over his head...