Word: showing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offer you Garbo or Buddy Guy. You know where to find them anyhow. But the photography show, the largest American showing of Cartier-Bresson photographs in twenty years, is now at the Worcester Art Museum. You should go. It consists of 148 photographs, all but twenty-five taken since 1950. All of the pictures come from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and were chosen for the show by Cartier-Bresson and the Curator of Photography...
...show appears almost simulanteously with Cartier-Bresson's beautiful new book, The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson. But while the book is an expression of the photographer's personal and artistic development, the show, which overlaps the book in about sixty places, is geared more to the diversity of topics covered by him in the past decade...
PORTRAITS of Saul Steinberg, William Faulkner, Giacometti (running to breakfast in the rain) show another facet of his genius. He gathers up wonderful details of his subjects' surroundings to capture them and attach them to a real world, rather than idealize and abstract them. The Faulkner picture sticks in my mind in such a way that whenever I think of him, I return to his face and thin body and yet also to the small lean dog who stretches behind...
...ever was. He supposedly does not develop or print his own pictures, entrusting this to a carefully supervised assistant, because he is too busy in the field. His photographs of Parisian students in the streets, taken less than two weeks before the exhibition opened in New York, show his total involvement with contemporary events. His pictures betray a thoroughly contemporary drive to discover what is true about the events, without irony or prejudice of the old or the establishment. Students, arm in arm, stream into his focus--proud stances and spaces of chest mixed with really frightened glances and hesitant...
According to Newfield, there will be no such action at Harvard, but The Movement Center across from Adams House on Arrow Street will show movies and hold discussion groups...