Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeal to him for their interest in "everydayness, the everyday movement of people's lives." He admires Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man) and William Faulkner?"the real psychologists." Most important to Coles, though, is the late James Agee, whose writing style he consciously imitated in the early 1960s and whose photograph looks down on Coles as he writes. Erikson says that Coles strongly identifies with the author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, that early portrait of sharecroppers. Both writers, says Erikson, "are part of a tradition going back to John Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath." But Coles...
...photograph that has caused the most excitement among scientists shows a 250-mile-long valley that resembles an arroyo (a water-cut gulley common in semiarid regions on earth). The valley is 3½ miles wide and has branching, streamlike tributaries that seem more likely to have been formed by water than by lava. "We are hard put to find a mechanism other than running water for these features," says Harold Masursky of the U.S. Geolog ical Survey. Although scientists agree that there is no free-flowing water on the Martian surface now, the sharp and uneroded features...
...pants to the last speckle on the horse's coat. But, says McLean, 37, "it's not just a blown-up photo. I try to get a more heightened sense of reality, to make it a more startling and palpable thing to react to than a photograph is. Those people on the horse are more real to you than they would be if you went out and saw them standing in real life in a field...
Right Angle. Painter Alfred Leslie is even blunter in his rejection of photographic aids. "In the 20th century," he says, "our reality comes through instrumentation. People believe things only when the things have been qualified by technology. So you can be convicted in court by a photo taken of you, even though 20 people say you were 100 miles away. This is because people feel that a photograph has more truth than personal testimony." Leslie's pictorial pragmatism is such that, for a current painting of the death of his poet friend Frank O'Hara...
...reached the ripe age of ninety, and according to the list Simon and Schuster give us. Jeeves and the Tie That Binds is his seventy-fifth book. He started writing at about the same time as Joyce or, say, about the time Mark Twain died. The dust-jacket photograph shows Mr. Wodehouse touching his toes without bending his knees--something I have yet to be able to do. He is a remarkable...