Word: protraits
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...down the rue de Rivoli. People lived, some very normally, through all of those years. Most, like that old woman, probably never conceived of battles on the Eastern front, or Auschwitz. It is with Rand's pictures and a group of excerpted interviews that the author paints his truest protrait of wartime Paris...
...Seidman's column on Wilfred Burchett in this week's Crimson should not pass without notice. Here is a friendly protrait of a man until recently barred from the United States, now once again in circulation to sell his new book. Seidman describes Burchett as a war correspondent better able to understand the Vietnam War than American reporters because of his intimacy with Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong, and as a life-long supporter of popular revolutions around the world...
...hands. The director raises all of the right questions about working class militancy--the problems of racism, sexism, and sectional divisions within the working class; the limits of union activity; the position of intellectuals in the labor movement--without suggesting there are easy answers. Marcello Mastroianni presents a magnificent protrait of the ambivalent situation of the radical intellectual who has given his whole life to the movement as an organizer, but whose committment is to some extent egotistical and at the expense other committments. The film concludes on a pessimistic rather than a romantic note--the workers lose the strike...
...done ten years earlier by W.H. Fox Talbot, the tone of the photograph is very different. The calotype image has a soft, fuzzy, dreamy quality--a gentleness that interacts with the figure of the old, blind preacher playing his harp. In every photograph on exhibit--from a mystical photogravure protrait of Yeats to a study of shadows in gum-biochromate by Edward Steichen--the artist/photographer has deliberately chosen a technique that combines with and supports the visual effect he tries to achieve. This exquisite co-ordination of method and result is not Lady Eastlake's "unreasoning power...
...painter Georgia O'Keeffe, whom he married the next year. His portraits of her, 15 of which are exhibited at the Fine Arts, are nothing short of brilliant. His portraits of other people, by comparison, are disappointing. The reason for this disparity is simple: for Stieglitz, the photographic protrait is a part of possessing someone. It begins at birth, continues throughout life and death, and then begins again with the subject's child. Everything is photographed--hands, feet, torsos, moods, emotions. Stieglitz came close to such photographic possession only with his wife...