Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HARD to escape the conclusion that the Common wealth's case was built less on these tangled, rational threads than on an appeal to emotion. Since the decision, several jurors have said that the photograph of the fetus had a strong effect on them, and figured importantly in their verdict. When Homans objected to the admission of the photographs, Flanagan argued that it was central to the Commonwealth's contention that the "victim" of the abortion had been a baby, and not just a fetus. The defense never denied that a 24 week old fetus is similar in appearance...
...defense. But, for jurors who believed the evidence of their eyes, that a baby had lived and been killed, Giminez-Jimeno's testimony was irrefutable in its essence. The defense could not deny that Edelin had deliberately caused the death of what the jurors saw in that photograph. And it may be that the defense never succeeded in removing from their minds that first, vivid picture of Edelin as a ruthless, cold-blooded abortionist, standing motionless over a dying child...
...somewhat less informative, as anything in the huge paper's news columns that day. "Has anyone seen my son David Rosoff?" it asked. It showed a picture of a small boy wearing a cowboy hat. Below the picture was a date more poignant than the question: the photograph had been taken in 1968. TIME Correspondent Marion Knox explored the strange story behind the ad and sent this report...
...psychic experience--whatever that might be--but these pictures are only peripherally related to purely visual experience. When one walks the streets of N.Y., one simply does not see the world of so little real space and such severely truncated forms that Harbutt has depicted in his photograph of the city...
...process of photography creates enough of a suspension of the real and mystification of it to make the image of a real object in fact surreal. But Harbutt has not realized that such truly surreal and evocative photography requires pictures that are as classically descriptive and uncontrived as a photograph...