Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the first photographers aspired to art in the 19th century, they were profoundly disturbed by the camera's sharp and indiscriminating eye. As a result, they tried to make photographs that resembled paintings. Using classical, posed subject matter (half-draped nudes by a mountain stream and the like), they manipulated the photographic process to produce fuzzy, vaguely romantic images. After World War I, art photographers finally began to come to terms with the nature of their medium. Photographers such as Steiglitz and Strand discovered the artistic possibilities of sharp focus and modern subject matter. Their approach was formal, carefully...
There are times when I put aside the camera. Forgo the image...Charlie Olchowski once told me Diane Arbus would do anything for a photograph--absolutely anything, go anywhere, to get what she wanted...Since by now I know I have limits and see what pictures I miss because of them. I can understand how that willingness to go forward, that final act to do it, get it, take it, is fundamental to her genius. It separates her from the rest...
...painted, one cannot help ad miring the symbolizing effort that went into it: no other painting of Fuseli's, or for that matter of the late 18th century, is so full of the sense of trespass on hith erto forbidden territory. No wonder Sigmund Freud kept a framed photograph of The Nightmare on the bookcase in his Vienna study...
...reporting on the U.M.W.'s corrupt president, now convicted Murderer W.A. ("Tony") Boyle. In one memorable issue in May 1969, the Journal got so carried away with its neo-Stalinist sycophancy that it ran 32 separate pictures of Boyle in the magazine's 24 pages, including one photograph of Boyle standing in front of a picture of himself...
...writer bleakly regarding the reader from the dust jacket. Scraps of knowledge help: Kawabata, the author of Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1968; he wrote no novel after this one; he killed himself at age 72 in 1972. The jacket photograph obviously was made toward the end of his life: the face is unamused, undeluded, intelligent...