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...ICHARD AVEDON, fashion photographer and portrait-maker, will be speaking tonight at the Fogg in conjunction with his latest project In the American West (co-sponsored by the ICA Harvard's Office for the Arts, and Harvard University Art Museum). Following are excerpts from a recent interview with Mr. Avedon...
Upstairs I dumped my coat under a portrait of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, known as Prabhupada--who was sharing wall space with a microwave oven--and shuffled barefoot into the ceremony room. In here, His Divine Grace was represented in 3-D form; a lifesize, full color lacquered statue sat meditatively at the back of the room, surrounded by leafy ferns and silky robes...
...appeals court threw out the lower-court award of $12.5 million, the case sent a shiver through publishers. Another shudder had come with a 1979 decision on the novel Touching. A California psychologist who ran nude therapy groups convinced a jury that he was the basis for an unflattering portrait in the book and won $75,000 in damages from Author Gwen Davis and her publisher, Doubleday, which turned around and sued the author to retrieve its losses...
...book describes the research leading to a Nobel Prize in Physics and paints an unflattering portrait...
...hospital three days after their bewildered arrival in Washington. Assisted in that sudden release and encouraged to learn English by British Poet-Journalist James Fenton, whom he had met in Phnom Penh, the author, now 29, gets it all down with a straightforward vividness that chills the bones. / His portrait of Cambodia lost would in any circumstances be vital anthropology; in the light of what came after, however, it also assumes the weight of almost unbearable elegy...