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...mother of seven. And Arthur Penn, 33, father of three. And Elizabeth Carson, 64, whose husband Willy lost an arm. Pathetic lines of mourners wept after the requiem at the Catholic Church of St. Matthew, half a mile from where the attackers had tossed a bomb into the crowded Strand bar in East Belfast...
...considers one of the odder aberrations of the 19th: Victorian morality. British Historian J.H. Plumb has aptly described "the Victorian's schizophrenic attitude-the conspiracy of silence, the excessive modesty that made the sight of a female ankle wildly erotic, contrasted with the baby prostitutes in the Strand." American Scholar Steven Marcus, in his study The Other Victorians, wrote of "a world part fantasy, part nightmare, part hallucination and part madhouse." Last week London was atwitter over not one but two sex scandals that came to light when some documents dating from the days when that curious world still...
...with all their formal elegance and highly-keyed tones, these pictures seem ultimately somewhat artificial. They are quite marvelously photographed, but they are also anachronistic. The great photographers of nature Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams--have been able to make photographs full of the tonal richness and graphic simplicity which typifies Rosenblum's work, but Rosenblum's pictures of the "humanscape" seem to lack the sort of passionate involvement with their particular subject that the "nature scapes" of Weston, Strand and Adams had with theirs. Perhaps it is as simple a matter as the fact that human faces...
...possibility, though, is that Rosenblum's work is different from the tradition and prejudices of photography. We may possibly have to look at it with unbiased eyes in order to find out whether in fact he has accomplished the "synthesis of the 'documentary' and the 'aesthetic"' for which Paul Strand lauds him in his introduction to the show. This sort of respect for Rosenblum's work is what prompted Fogg photography curator Davis Pratt to hold the show. Yet regardless of whether Rosenblum's work will eventually seem to be innovation or aberration in the tradition of photography, the pictures...
...Using classical, posed subject matter (half-draped nudes by a mountain stream and the like), they manipulated the photographic process to produce fuzzy, vaguely romantic images. After World War I, art photographers finally began to come to terms with the nature of their medium. Photographers such as Steiglitz and Strand discovered the artistic possibilities of sharp focus and modern subject matter. Their approach was formal, carefully--considered, composed and crafted. This style reached its peak in the 40's with the work of Edward Weston. Weston photographed mainly nudes, still lifes and landscapes, emphasizing the photograph's wide, tonal scale...