Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This, of course, was exactly what Ray warned against. If a photograph is to hang on a wall as the equal of a painting, it has to hang as a photograph and a photograph alone, not as an attempt to use photographic tools to produce a painterly result. The face of the real world is simply too recalcitrant and ugly for a camera, stupid, fast instrument that it is, to realize a creator's dream...
AROUND ABOUT 1966, when Prince produced and directed Cabaret, things begin to liven up. What drew him to the play, he explains, was "the parallel between the spiritual bankruptcy of Germany in the 1920s and our country in the 1960s." At the first rehearsal, Prince showed the actors a photograph of "a group of Aryan blonds in their late teens, stripped to the waist, wearing religious medals, snarling at the camera like a pack of hounds." The cast placed the picture in pre-war Germany. Actually, Prince pointed out ominously, it was a gang of toughs fighting the integration...
What Newman A. Flanagan, assistant district attorney in Suffolk County, had on Edelin was a photograph of the dead black fetus that he had seen in the morgue in the course of his investigations...
Foreword by Wallace Stegner. 127 pages. New York Graphic Society. $65. Magnificent examples of the reverential grandeur in Ansel Adams' photographic art, reproduced under the perfectionist eye of Adams himself. At the age of 72 he is the pre-eminent black-and-white photographer of the American West. Adams' sweeping vistas of Yosemite and the Sierras, his close-up studies of wood, rock and plants and sometimes people have been repeatedly and justly praised. The purity, directness and technical excellence of his pictures attest to Adams' belief that "a photograph is made, not taken." Yet there...
...that is Baby Watson." She turned and pointed to a huge black and white photograph of a baby sitting on a shiny floor in a white dress. Baby Watson, it seems, was born last year in Vermont. He is now ten months old and will always be ten months old. The sales girl pointed to a wooden sign lying on a countertop, the name "Baby Watson" carved into its grain...