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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alves said, "You have to have a vehicle in which the [Boston] mayor, the School Committee, the state and parents can come and work and get assistance in terms of planning...
...with none of Riis' occasional nose-holding attitude toward the poor. There is no pigeonholing in Hine's 1904 portraits of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, no cliches of nationality or occupation. He knew that people who might not yet speak the language of their new home could still state themselves plainly to the lens...
Balzac had a "vague dread" of being photographed. Like some primitive peoples, he thought the camera steals something of the soul -- that, as he told a friend "every body in its natural state is made up of a series of ghostly images superimposed in layers to infinity, wrapped in infinitesimal films." Each time a photograph was made, he believed, another thin layer of the subject's being would be stripped off to become not life as before but a membrane of memory in a sort of translucent antiworld...
...about his picture of Loan executing the Viet Cong officer. What the picture does not show is that a few moments earlier the Viet Cong had slaughtered the family of Loan's best friend in a house just up the road. All this occurred during the Tet offensive, a state of general mayhem all over South Viet Nam. The Communists in similar circumstances would not have had qualms about summary execution...
Representative Edward Towns (D-N.Y.), however, said Hispanics and Blacks have been "working together in New York State since 1977." He stated that he was "confident that as a result of the Black community, the Hispanic community, and of course the white community, New York City will have its first Black mayor...