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...This article consists of a photograph--see below...
Perhaps The Court wanted to ask Day more questions about Dreyfus after Greenough received a May 27 letter from George Wilcox using the strange cipher. He enclosed a photograph of Dreyfus that he found and described him as “slightly more tall than I perhaps 5’9’’ or 10’’. He has a thin black moustache. He probably weighs about 140 lb.” He added: “I have lately found a letter written by Piper [Courtney] to Potter [Cyril Wilcox] in which...
Between 1915 and 1917, he began to photograph an 18th century farmhouse in Bucks County, Pa., that he rented as a weekend retreat, as well as the old barns in the surrounding countryside. In a photograph like Doylestown House, Stairs from Below, in which the underside of a cellar stairway forms a hard-edged, spiraling abstraction, he was drawing connections between the most radical modernism and old traditions of American art and life. What his picture hints is that the 20th century had a backstairs connection to the 19th. Sheeler suspected, and he was right, that a Pennsylvania farmhouse drew...
...centerpiece of the exhibit is a black-and-white photograph of the 1909 Merchant of Venice cast that ordinarily hangs in the hallways outside the Agassiz Theater. An Athena recreation of the photo, featuring the same characters in the same positions, will appear beside it and eventually, Fawcett hopes, join the original in the annals of Harvard-Radcliffe history...
...there is something reductive about this view, fundamentally sound though it is. A photographer is always able to convey his or her personal opinion with provocative selection and framing of a snapshot’s subject—far more easily than can the author of a news story. Especially in a case like Keating’s, where the image provided anecdotal color rather than documentary evidence of news, is a photograph ever anything more than “information that is manipulated?" Brent Cunningham, managing editor of the CJR and one of the leaders of an inquiry into...