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...marks the publication of Adams' 35th book and the opening of a major exhibit of the work of the man who, at 77, is the nation's best-known art photographer. He is also the first photographer to appear on TIME's cover and, says his portraitist, "the most deserving subject I can think of-not only because of his contributions as artist and a conservationist. He is a celebration of the art of photography itself...
...rather as tourists in 18th century Italy sometimes carried a smoked lens called a Claude Glass, through which the landscapes of the Roman Campagna could be seen in the mellow brown tone of Claude Lorrain's canvases. To that public, Adams is as American as John Wayne: the last portraitist of Western sublimity...
...silence. Bertolucci's observations are no less sentimental, but at least he took some artistic risks in the process. While Olmi seems to feel that the sheer homeliness of his technique amounts to blunt honesty, his aesthetic is every bit as disingenuous as that of a professional waif portraitist in Montmartre. All he has done is serve his picturesque peasants on a pretty platter so that rich people, from a safe distance, can get their fill...
...earlier novels, Berger proved himself a fine minor portraitist of the hapless, tough-talking American male: the middleclass, victimized hero of the Reinhart trilogy, the used-car salesmen and small-time gangsters in Sneaky People. Little Big Man, his burlesque epic of the wild West, and Who Is Teddy Villanova?, a brilliant imitation of the private-eye novel, displayed a notable talent for satire...
...18th century portraitist was so prolific that up to 50 of his paintings of Washington may be around. Stuart also had plenty of imitators. Many people stumble across a painting of Washington and dream of a Stuart bonanza. Says Monroe Fabian, an associate curator at the National Portrait Gallery: "The paintings come in here in brown paper bags and boxes. People cart them in from halfway across the country." A genuine full-length Stuart, he adds, would be worth "somewhere in the seven-figure range...