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...most immediately noticeable aspect of “Lincoln’s Smile and Other Enigmas” is a giant photograph of Abraham Lincoln’s craggy face staring out from the cover. But in spite of the photograph’s prominence, the key word in the title of Alan Trachtenberg’s new book is not “Lincoln,” but “enigmas.”Honest Abe figures only slightly in one of the book’s essays, and even then it is not so much Abraham Lincoln...
...math and computer science concentrator during his undergraduate years, Coit worked as a venture capitalist before dedicating himself to painting. Coit said Southern’s painting was one of the most challenging portraits because it was posthumous. “I was working with a black and white photograph and had to think about what color her shirt would be,” Coit said last night. He settled on a “creamy, yellow white” in honor of the dress worn by the dancer Judith Jamison in “Revelations.” ABHW?...
...invention of the frivolous, gossip-hungry magazine “US Weekly.” By altering parts of the magazine’s text and inserting opposing images, Wasserman creates poignant juxtapositions. One page, entitled “Puttin’ on the Glitz” shows a photograph of red carpet-ready Eva Longoria and the following text: “Iraqi citizen, it condemned Dell’Acqua with black and white diamonds attack that had left twenty-three children dead.” The combination of the original text referring to Longoria’s exorbitant...
...nearly every dormitory photograph, the beds are immaculate and tightly fitted, with no trace of the orphans, patients, or the itinerants who sleep in them...
...Neighborhood,” a photograph of the Francis E. Clark Settlement in Chicago, again unattributed and dated to circa 1903, is one of the most detail-rich prints in the show. An alleyway separates two apartment buildings...