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...that I am respectably of age, I carry my license and its angstful photograph proudly. I no longer look demurely away from the beer list. I draw on woefully inadequate notions of winemaking to make remarks about growing conditions in various French provinces...
...interested--curious in the personality behind the words? Perhaps the photographs are simply a sign of the cult of personality with which editorial remarks are typically infused. When we are writing as editorial individuals (for there is no photograph of the Ed Board writing the group's opinion) we are unique in a way that no individual reporter, striving for objectivity, can claim to be. So it seems fair enough to bring our bodies into...
...million, the Cultural Revolution and the recent opening to the outside world--the disruption of the dam is relatively minor from the Chinese perspective. And he sees that the quaint old houses built on the cobbled streets leading up from the Yangtze--the structures Western tourists like to photograph--are in fact dirty, cramped and without running water or toilets. Many Chinese prefer to move to the industrial new towns built in all their tasteless utility. Writes Hessler: "In some ways it was like the American generation of my parents, who grew up on stories of the Depression and World...
Other works in the exhibit reveal how photographers leveraged religious notions and imagery to sell their images. Photographers would often photography various sites from Christianity as a way of validating the Biblical record. One such example is a photograph of the city of Jericho depicting the city as a dry, barren landscape. This photography was received as physical proof of the validity of the Biblical account of Joshua cursing the city causing it to dry up and be unfruitful...
...exhibit does a very good job of providing the viewer with detailed explanations of the history behind each photograph, and teaches the viewer a great deal about the various ways the Middle East was constructed and interpreted in Europe in the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th...