Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hess will race anyone they've got, Harvard swimming coach Ray Essick said. "He's only been on a minimum training schedule for the last four weeks which has been during exams and intersession, but he has a lot of years in the water for his training background...
...Stranger Here Myself: A Portrait of Nicholas Ray, 4:15, 6:25, 8:35, 10:45; Antonia, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40. David and Lisa, Saturday and Sunday...
...PHOTOGRAPHY IS NOT Art, but there is art in photography," declared Man Ray about 1930. The Whitney Museum of American Art should have heeded his warning...
...Ray was one of several artists to explore the "creative" potential of photography and his warning, almost fifty years old now, prophesied the most important developments in photography during those ensuing years. "Photography in America," however, the Whitney's attempt at a retrospective of the medium in this country, seems to have ignored what Ray's insights meant. This show is the Whitney's first photo show after a long period of vehemently refusing to show the medium, and one is almost tempted to hope that it will also be the last...
This, of course, was exactly what Ray warned against. If a photograph is to hang on a wall as the equal of a painting, it has to hang as a photograph and a photograph alone, not as an attempt to use photographic tools to produce a painterly result. The face of the real world is simply too recalcitrant and ugly for a camera, stupid, fast instrument that it is, to realize a creator's dream...