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...Epstein career has proceeded by a mounting series of sensations. It began in 1908. Commissioned to sculpt decorations for the British Medical Association Building, Epstein spent 14 frantic months suspended on a scaffold high above London's busy Strand. When the scaffolding was removed from his first five oversized nudes, the storm broke. Wrote the Evening Standard on page 1: "It is unnecessary to say any more than that they are a form of statuary which no careful father would wish his daughter, or no discriminating young man, his fiancée, to see." Result: for thousands of careful...
...seat were Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in white linen suit and a Panama hat, Eleanor Roosevelt in white, and handsome, sad-eyed Crown Princess Martha of Norway, in mourning for her cousin-by-marriage, the late Duke of Kent, her severe black dress and hat relieved only by a double strand of gleaming pearls...
Native Land (Leo Hurwitz-Paul Strand documentary about civil rights and organized labor; TIME, June...
Native Land (Leo Hurwitz-Paul Strand documentary about civil rights and organized labor; TIME, June...
Native Land (Leo Hurwitz-Paul Strand documentary about civil rights and organized labor; TIME, June...