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...days, the marketplace and the church––and the pubs––were the places people could hang out. And now, every time I go there [Winthrop Park], there are people engaged with the piece. One time, I went to photograph and I saw a couple sitting on the ground and they had flowers and a jacket on it. Such a beautiful gesture that it goes both ways...
...common and famous alike, as a good papal shepherd should. He was a kind, honest and just man whose love for his faith and his people were apparent in his deeds as well as his countenance. Mary Kay Arndt Arlington Heights, Illinois, U.S. Of Royals and Nuptials Re the photograph of the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles [April 18]: Camilla would have been more tastefully dressed if she had not been wearing white or something awfully close to it. White is worn to symbolize purity. And Camilla's broad-brimmed hat looked like a lampshade...
...photograph of the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles [April 18]: Camilla would have been more tastefully dressed if she had not been wearing white or something awfully close to it, and her broad-brimmed hat looked like a lampshade...
Ansel Adams once defined a great photograph as "a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety." By that criterion, Mydans, 78, made a great photograph in one of his first assignments for LIFE. In the oil town of Freer, Texas, he turned his camera on the restless men loitering before a wood-frame lunchroom. Shooting from across the muddy street and above the roof line, his view takes in everything from a distant filigree of oil rigs to the ratty classicism of the restaurant porch. Harnessing the camera's broad indecisiveness, he reports both the sociology...
Writers who turn themselves into celebrities run such risks. Balzac is said to have formed a theory about the dangers of being photographed, which may have something to do with the hazards of celebrity in general. Everybody is composed of a series of ghostly images superimposed in layers to infinity, the theory said. Since man is not able to create something out of nothing, each photograph must lay hold of, detach and use up one of the layers of the body on which it was focused. The self is peeled away like an onion...