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...HAVE SIGNED WITH WILHELMINA MODELS AND DONE SOME PRINT ADS. DO YOU THINK FIGURE SKATERS ARE AS CATTY AS MODELS? We might be, but you never really get to see that side of us because they never put us together in one room. Who knows what might happen...
Earlier this month in New Orleans, after announcing $90 million in hurricane-recovery grants, George Bush and Bill Clinton sat down for their first joint print interview, with TIME's Michael Duffy, who covered both Presidents when they were in office. The two men were in a good mood, referring and deferring to each other throughout the 30-minute session and recalling a joint adventure on the high seas. Here are some excerpts...
...most striking pieces in "End of Time," the career retrospective of legendary Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto now running at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, is a portrait of Japan's controversial World War II and postwar Emperor, Hirohito. The black-and-white, 1.5 m by 1.2 m print is astonishing in its crisp detail. Hirohito is seated and wearing full morning dress, and every crease of his jowl, every fold of his trousers, every line on the knuckles of his fingers is finely articulated. It is almost as if the Emperor is sitting there, in the museum, 17 years...
...brilliance of the work rests not just upon the quality of the print's resolution, however, but also upon this conceptual turn: the photo is not really of the Emperor, but of his wax figure at Madame Tussaud's museum in London. Wax statues look almost laughably fake in person, but Sugimoto exploits the power (or perhaps the weakness) of the camera's single eye to flatten perspective and encourage illusion, thereby creating an image that looks more real, more human than the wax object he is photographing. In the next room are similar shots of King Henry VIII...
...movie houses to probe the nature of light and time. Traveling to some of America's finest Beaux Arts and Art Deco theaters, Sugimoto shoots their interiors by keeping his camera lens open during an entire film screening. Burning a complete movie into a single photographic frame leaves every print a glowing, radiant white. These photos are thus not just gorgeous documentation of theater interiors (some of them now demolished) but the screens are encapsulations of two hours of light, motion and experience into one dazzling instant...