Word: photographs
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...Forrest Gump of the military. He ended up in the spotlight through no fault of his own." FREDERICK WRIGHT, father of Lance Corporal Andrew Wright, 21, a Marine who his parents say was ordered, along with a fellow serviceman, to photograph the corpses of unarmed Iraqi civilians allegedly killed by members of their unit in Haditha, Iraq...
...appearance was amazingly consistent with the speculative police portraits drawn over the years; the last known photograph was taken in 1959. The boss had evaded capture by living a peasant's life, by counting on cover from the locals--and perhaps on the strength of his hit-man nickname "Bennie the Tractor." (You didn't want to be mowed down by Bennie.) Cortese actually came close to Provenzano in January 2001, but his target slipped away during a raid near the town of Mezzojuso. Last year, after 50 of Provenzano's aides were captured in a sweep, Cortese said...
...Other photographs are impressive for their balanced complexity. “Typical Nativity Scene” is near-maddening with its hundreds of miniature snow globes, potted plants, dolls, Disney characters, and doilies, but Alejos rescues the scene from pure cacophony. He steps away and sets the nativity scene off-center, transforming it into a cohesive unit. Still, if we come close to the photograph, we can just make out the detail of each miniature...
...arrangement in “Group of Peasants on Acuchymay Mountain” is clearly for the camera. Yet, perhaps because of the car whose front bumper can be seen in the corner of the photograph, several of peasants are looking off in another direction. A group of men in suits look most intently at the camera, perhaps are most aware of the importance of self-presentation...
They are packed so tightly that for the majority we can see little more than a head. Part “Where’s Waldo,” part Jackson Pollock painting, this photograph throbs and pulses as if the viewer is standing in the center of the crowd. Just as in Alejos’ other photographs of gatherings, the viewer notes that the peasants are aware of the camera, but just as many look at their children, siblings, or friends. And even though the photograph includes so many people, almost every face is legible...