Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While White's choice of photographs may not satisfy everyone, he has constructed a unified exhibit of pictures that is effective on two different levels. On a purely visual level each photograph is a pleasing two-dimensional arrangement of lines and shapes, of tones and patterns. But nearly every picture in every exhibit has this quality. Many exhibits then go on to comment on some phase of human life, or of man's environment, or of nature. In such exhibits the photographers present their individual statements, which the viewer can then either accept, deny, or ignore...
...title Light is supposed to symbolize seven different roles that light can play in a photograph. Each of these roles is described in notes that appear in the catalogue of the show. But don't bother reading the notes; they merely undercut the photographs. Go and see the photographs. They speak articulately for themselves...
...Lampoon, in fact, spoils its best effort in the issue with more of this overkill. The last page of Life, as you may or may not know, is entitled "Miscellany" and consists of a captioned photograph, usually of some cuddly animal in some clever pose. The Lampoon parodied it nicely--offering an anguished little girl, left hand over her eyes, right hand holding a gun pointing down at a dead white cat which lies in the street in its own blood. The whole is entitled "No Hard Felines." But, almost as if the Poonies felt this was too subtle...
...State University's Charles Csuri, a painter turned programmer, employs EDP (Electronic Data Processing) to sketch funhouse-mirror distortions of Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of a man in Vitruvian proportions. Japanese Engineer Fujio Niwa has produced a computer portrait of John F. Kennedy that converts a photograph into a series of dashes, all of which converge with sinister impact on the left...
...houses are probably the most shocking part. In the 1930's, in the depths of the depression, James Agee and Walker Evans went to Alabama to photograph and write about Southern rural poverty. Several of the buildings in the picture section of their book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, still exist. Thirty years of occupancy have not improved the buildings. And where the buildings are different from the ones Agee and Evans saw, they are not much better...