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...matter for stories. They drink! They fight! They cut off their ears! So many things they do are fascinating-except, that is, for making art. That may be why so many movies and novels about creative types tend to focus on their personal lives. Even James Joyce ended A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, pursued his art. Dedalus moving from house to house because his father is broke: interesting. Dedalus rewriting a tricky patch of dialogue: not so much...
...project and editing and stuff, so there’s a lot of critiquing.”The film is Patino’s and partner Ben P. Gettinger’s ’08 project for the class’s second assignment: “Portrait of a Person.” The students pair up and choose one subject to follow around. The people that the pairs chose varied from housewives to barbers. The class’s first project, “Light Journal,” was an individual project that used black...
DIED. MICHAEL EVANS, 61, photographer whose folksy portrait of Ronald Reagan, beaming beneath a worn cowboy hat during his bid for the 1976 G.O.P. presidential nomination, made the covers of TIME, PEOPLE and Newsweek after the Gipper's death last year and whose work for TIME covering Reagan's triumphant 1980 campaign inspired the President to hire him as White House photographer; of cancer; in Atlanta...
...notice in the late 1980s. Some years later she moved into territory even more shadowy than the boundary between childhood and adulthood: the Southern landscape. Through darkroom accidents and her use of 19th century glass-plate developing techniques, these pictures come to us fogged, scratched and indistinct, like her portrait of a wounded tree, above. Her mesmerizing book is not so much a portrait of the South as it is a dream about it, with a residue of wonder and longing on every page...
...gaze is direct, incurious but not hostile. It's the signature expression that immediately identifies this portrait of an Afghan schoolgirl as the work of American photographer Steve McCurry. How does he persuade his subjects to look so steadily into his lens? "I find humor a great way to break the ice and connect," he says. "Once you start to talk to people you find they're not that much different." A sense of the common humanity that links different cultures infuses "Face of Asia," an exhibition of his pictures from Afghanistan, Cambodia, India and Tibet, the first show...