Word: self-portrait
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...fiction. De Monfreid was at once a wild man and a philosophe, whose tender soliloquies on the joys of an unfettered life at sea, with nothing but the naked stars above, retain an immense power to seduce. While Hashish may be an acutely self-conscious literary artifact, it is also a singular self-portrait of a defiant spirit, who spurned "the slavery of some dreary job" and "the frivolous and treacherous world" of conventionality. The book had almost drowned in obscurity. Now it has resurfaced to beguile a whole new generation of readers...
...Harvard College Women’s Center’s fourth art show exhibits works by eight Harvard undergraduates seeking to describe the “Harvard experience” through self-portraits. About 30 artists, friends, and even a few freshman parents filled the Women’s Center when the show opened at 7 p.m. Friday night. The media used in the students’ artwork ranged from photography to silk-screening to newsprint collages to dot stickers. While the subjects of the self-portraits spanned a broad spectrum, two of the artists placed a special focus...
...next stiletto is not the most pressing matter. “Self-Portrait,” by Daniel Chen ’08, challenges the artistic tradition that provides its title, giving viewers little idea of what Chen actually looks like. “Self-Portrait” is a composition of dozens of photographs of varying sizes, each a different portrait of an Asian or Asian-American male wearing glasses. Unlike typical composite pictures that use many small images to create a single larger image, each portrait stands independently. Ultimately, Chen leaves it for the viewer to decide which...
...range of photographic practice, from photojournalism to portraiture, curator Crombie brings together a remarkably coherent vision. Haunting the show are spectral presences, from the dapperly besuited Aboriginal gent of the '50s that Brenda L. Croft retrieved from her late father's shoebox of slides, and Darren Siwes' ghostly self-portrait projected onto a Henson-like night-time landscape, to vacated urban spaces in which we are left to trace subtle signs of life-whether it be in a ray of sunlight retreating from Annie Hogan's Brisbane rental house, or the silvery spray of Scott Redford's Gold Coast urinal...
Cameras supposedly don't lie, yet in this lovely, wordless story the photos from a camera found by a boy on a beach are hard to believe--fantastical creatures, underwater realms, seashell cities. What to do with such a magical device? One shot gives the clue: a self-portrait of a child holding a self-portrait of a child, and so on, back through the generations. The boy tosses the camera into the ocean, to become flotsam on the imagination of another youth on another shore...