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...photos, drawn from all stages of Bravo's career, convey a sense of the precision Rivera praised. Bravos most striking characteristic is a crystalline, sometimes stark vision of his country's landscape and people. Light and shadow appear as palpable entities in these photos. Bravo's clearsightedness proves especially valuable in portraying the reality of Mexico, a nation so steeped in stereotype for Americans. His uncompromising view drains these images of any sentimentality or quaintness. At their best, these scenes of everyday Mexican life and death appear iconic and timeless...
...exhibition's most stunning images, entitled "Los Agachados" (The Crouching Ones), demonstrates this double significance. In the photo, a row of men are seated at a restaurant counter with their backs to the camera, apparantly eating or drinking. Their heads hidden in brutal shadow, their bodies appear in stark relief against the shade inside the restaurant, strangely lifeless. The startling image, with its oddly posed figures, echoes the Surrealist attempts to defamiliarize the human body and confuse the boundary between shadow and reality. But, in juxtaposing images of plenty and those of descending doom, "Los Agachados" also resonates with ancient...
Miller was dressed with conspicuous informality; almost as a self-parody, with his black jeans, black leather jacket and, naturally, the metaphorical heart on his sleeve: a pink triangle, stark against the black...
Bone Machine, tom Waits' latest album, is a landmark for American pop music. Waits presents a stark series of bluesy songs that are innovative and profound. The most striking thing about the album is its spare sound. Waits strips down the blues to create a haunting timbre of heavy, hollow drums, chilling guitars and growling vocals...
...issue isn't as simple as conservatives would have you believe. There's no need for a stark choice between the 3000 residents of Forks and the 3000 northern spotted owl nesting pairs left in Washington, Oregon and California...