Word: photographically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cover: Photograph by Dennis Brack -- DOD Pool
...decision to send Americans to the Persian Gulf, Bush did so in a conference room at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin mountains. Not far away, in a long hallway, a showcase of war mementos greets passers-by. Dominating the scene is a life-size photograph of Bush, the kind that tourists in Washington pay $5 to pose with. But Bush's version, a Christmas gift from the U.S. Army, is framed and has a dozen-odd bullet holes in its head. It was retrieved from the private pistol range of Manuel Noriega. Nearby are the original...
Ever since the National Endowment for the Arts stirred a ruckus by funding an exhibition of photographs with explicitly homosexual themes by Robert Mapplethorpe, NEA Chairman John Frohnmayer has ducked public appearances. Last week he testified to a commission probing the NEA's grant policies. Claiming that a display that "leads to confrontation . . . would not be appropriate for public funding," he came up with an outrageous example. He suggested that a photograph of Holocaust victims displayed "in the entrance of a museum where all would have to confront it, whether they chose to or not," might...
...Cover: Photograph by Susan May Tell -- SABA
...photographs themselves that draw crowds. The technical quality of the prints is simply and inarguably exquisite. Some critics argue that his photographs are just "warmed-over pictorialism," are overly pretty. This leads some to argue that despite his photograph's controversial content, his work is actually mainstream and conservative. Mapplethorpe himself maintained he would have been a sculptor if he had lived a 100 years...