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...Philippe Halsman is recognized as a master portrait photographer. A native of Riga, Latvia. Halsman studied engineering in Germany, but gave it up for photography. He was a top fashion photographer in Paris before he came to the United States in 1940. He did his first Life magazine cover in 1942, and since then has done one hundred more as well as countless others for leading national magazines. This interview was held in Mr. Halsman's studio in New York...
HALSMAN: For me, each portrait is my statement about my subject. Photographic technique makes it possible for me to make this statement not weakly or haphazardly, but with utmost force and clarity. I feel that my photograph, from the inception to the finished print, has to be conceived and controlled by me. I want my finished statement to be sharp and precise, with a three-diminsional look and full and rich range of tones from pure white to deep black. The subject must not pose but reveal himself and it must be of such psychological truth and depth that...
There are shades of Thomas Hardy in the book's cinematic evocation of background and its psychological portrait painting. But, although Alonzo's mysticism may stupefy one at times, his overall tone is seldom as professorial as Hardy's can be. Alonzo's writing approaches a Dadaesque neo-anarchism of spirit while using the vocabulary of surrealism. And these diverse elements, surprisingly, complement each other...
After studying 50 cases in a special treatment program at the VA Hospital in Brecksville, Ohio, in 1972, Custer and two associates produced a composite picture of a compulsive gambler in an advanced stage. The portrait, in part: he is a male in his 30s, without any financial resources; he sleeps poorly and is indifferent toward sex; he drinks a good deal; he is tense and irritable; he has thought of suicide; he thinks about gambling constantly...
...myth which Arafat himself has built up around his activities. Thomas Kiernan's efforts in his recent books to unveil that myth are long overdue. While many gaps in our knowledge of Arafat necessarily remain, it is reassuring to see that Kiernan has been able to produce a portrait of this elusive individual which enhances Americans' perception of recent happenings in the Middle East...