Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Photographer Edward Weston claimed that great portraits reveal "the very bones of life." He did not include, of course, workaday, signed publicity shots of notables (or hopefuls), the glossy eight-by-tens that decorate restaurants, offices and waiting rooms with ballpoint sincerity. Those bones are less signs of inner life than mementos of the cult of personality. What may be the country's first formal display of autographed pictures of famous folks is now on view at the venerable Boston Athenaeum in an exhibition titled "This Is My Favorite Photograph of Myself." The surprising result: a vibrant, affectionate show...
...photographs appeared to show people taller than native Laotians, using tools too big for natives, sometimes sitting cross-legged on the ground, instead of squatting Oriental-style. Surrounding them, it appeared, was a stockade with towers. Perhaps most persuasive, an aerial photograph showed the numerals 52 outlined on the ground. No one is sure what that number might signify: 52 prisoners in the camp, perhaps, or that the captives were the crew of one of the B-52s that had been shot down over the region. Because the numerals were first observed after Jan. 20, one theory was that they...
...cover portrait showed an aged and heavily wattled Valéry Giscard d'Estaing slumped before a television set. On the screen was a photograph of a hale and vigorous François Mitterrand. An altogether apt representation, one might think, of the results of France's presidential election. Except that the portrait appeared on the cover of France's respected newsweekly L'Express five days prior to the decisive May 10 balloting...
Maister must make judgments on his 100 students (50% of a student's grade is based on classroom performance), and he has a card on each one, with a photograph of the student on it. His comments range from "very good" to "turkey." His own job, he says, "is to turn people on, to make them want to learn." He is wearing, as he speaks, a blue necktie ornamented in gold thread with the words Waffle House...
...exquisite cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond enhances Heaven's Gate's bright moments. Cimino's most striking images of the Old West, shots of gunmen riding across the plain or through smoky streets, their long dustcoats flapping in the wind, have a haunting glow to them, a strange old photograph quality...