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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone seems to know everyone else. Dress is plain and runs for both men and women to tractor-fixing clothes, nondesigner jeans and faded flannel shirts hanging out from under jean jackets. There isn't a sequined vest or pair of DayGlo satin Grand Ole Opry overalls in sight...
...making photographs, some on commission and others ad lib, of France, especially the part of France that lay in Paris and within a radius of 50 miles around it. They were not meant to be tourist views-he never, for instance, photographed that most distinctive of all Parisian "sights," the Eiffel Tower. Nor were they meant to reveal spectacular oddities; there are no extreme closeups, wrenching details or aerial views in Atget, and the lens of his old-fashioned camera was always pitched at the height of a small man. Consistently, his work declares that anyone might have seen this...
...young man. When he photographed a motif a second or third time (as he often did, sometimes decades apart), the images, of village houses in Châtenay or trees in the park at St.-Cloud, each announces its specific qualities of light, reflection, time of day, angle of sight. Atget knew, as the impressionists knew, that the amount of reality any object can disclose is inexhaustible. But his work never succumbed to impressionist softness or generalization. Its tone is one of thoughtful clarity. The old root is not a symbol of old age; it is just wood, under light...
...unattractiveness of the sex act is just one of the problems it poses for the stylist. Another is that it is very difficult to be naked with style. The sum is diminished by the sight of the parts. Also, for sex--conventional sex, that is--you require a partner, which makes it a group activity. And a stylist avoids anything that requires membership of a group, even if it's a group of only two. Nor does the sexual act itself allow much scope for the expression of individuality, because in whatever version it's performed it is still predetermined...
...Elvis was fiercely coddled by "the Hillbilly Cassandra," his mother Gladys. Until he was eleven, he slept in the same bed with "Satnin'," his baby-talk name for the mother he stroked and petted until her death. Gladys did not let the boy play out of her sight until he was 15 and still walked him to school in ninth grade. At 16, Elvis transformed his paralyzing shyness into a bizarre statement: greased locks, pegged pants, mascara and eye shadow. Later he would dye his dirty-blond hair black, imitating a hoody Tony Curtis in the 1949 Brooklyn gang...