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...silent film was to the stage, early photography was to painting, sometimes. Day's early work is full of classical, symbolic subject matter-in 1898 he starved himself for weeks and then put on a crown of thorns so that he could photograph himself as Jesus and lift the camera to the realm of religious...
...exhibit works hard to capture Day's eccentricities. Several large glass cases contain an exquisite series of fine books produced by the firm Copeland and Day, a publishing venture specializing in decadent fin-de-sicle literature that preceded Day's career in photography. Each photograph is matted in the Arts and Crafts style that Day preferred, often using blues and browns as well as off-white. Some mats even include a thin orange square to contrast with the colorless images...
...said she tried to photograph the women as she imagined them to look. While working in Las Vegas for the New Yorker special issue on women, Leibovitz said she called a few showgirls to her studio for a shot...
Asked by the audience how she decided whom to photograph, Leibovitz said "it all came down to reading The New York Times." She said she tracked down people she read about in the newspaper and sought to photograph them...
...only a small portion of a story filled with enchanting details. There is the Long Island, N.Y., mansion he and his three brothers lived in while their father was still rich and famous, a magnet for such visitors as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald ("I have never seen a photograph that conveyed the beauty I saw in her"). There are glittering Hollywood anecdotes featuring everyone from David O. Selznick to Robert Altman, and behind-the-scenes stories about Lardner's two screenwriting Oscars, for Woman of the Year and M*A*S*H. The only sad thing about this book...