Word: photographs
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...starting point was an old black-and-white photograph of canoe-making taken by anthropologist Donald Thomson in the 1930s, which Gulpilil showed De Heer in Arnhem Land. "We need 10 canoes," said the actor, who had starred in De Heer's previous film, The Tracker (2002). Arriving at a narrative that satisfied both the Yolngu's desire for traditional storytelling and Western audiences' need for plot and pace proved a lesson in cultural navigation. Many Yolngu neither speak English nor understand movie-making: "It was conceptually outside their thinking about the world," says De Heer. The Yolgnu's only...
...Kansas tenant farmer, Parks was working as a railway-car waiter in the 1930s when he picked up a magazine left by a passenger and had his first look at images of the Depression-era U.S. made by Dorothea Lange and other Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers. Within a few years, he had bought a camera and started making portraits. By 1942 he was in Washington as an FSA photographer. On his first day there, Parks was refused service at a clothing store, theater and restaurant because he was black. He channeled his anger into his first famous photograph, made...
...first day there Parks was refused service at a clothing store, a movie theater and a restaurant because he was black. He channeled his anger and frustration into his first famous photograph, made the same day. American Gothic, as he called it, is a portrait of a black cleaning woman holding a mop and a broom in front of an American flag, with her solemn expression saying worlds about the limits that she - and he - ran up against every day. Parks would always carry with him the lesson of that picture. He applied it magnificently. His photographs, his books...
...bedroom, and all of France stops. His funeral is as grand as Victor Hugo's, and his legacy of artistic immortality is secure. So secure that the U.S. edition of this book, to be published in May, will be called Proust at the Majestic and will feature only his photograph on the front. By any cover, this book can be judged a feast for Proust fans...
...architectural terraces and geometrically rendered, perfectly landscaped backyard pools. “David Hockney Portraits” is the first exhibit dedicated expressly to Hockney’s work on people.This limit feels anything but confining. It gives balance and unity to the collection of paintings, prints, video stills, photograph montages, ink outlines, pencil sketches, and crayon drawings from each of the last six decades, including the current one––a bounding diversity that might have felt cumbersome without such a focus.More importantly, the persistent interest the artist seems to have for depicting people is evident...