Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HALSMAN: For me, each portrait is my statement about my subject. Photographic technique makes it possible for me to make this statement not weakly or haphazardly, but with utmost force and clarity. I feel that my photograph, from the inception to the finished print, has to be conceived and controlled by me. I want my finished statement to be sharp and precise, with a three-diminsional look and full and rich range of tones from pure white to deep black. The subject must not pose but reveal himself and it must be of such psychological truth and depth that...
...solution. I don't belong to photographers who shoot out of instinct--a lot of thinking goes into my taking or should I say making of pictures. A photograph is not only the solution of a photographic problem, it is also a statement of the photographer about his subject. The deeper the photographer, the deeper his statement. Therefore, in my opinion, the photographer should not concentrate solely on the development of his technique. Much more important is his own development as a human being...
...contrast to others they were not superficial but showed a kind of inner depth. It seems to me that this was my major contribution because if I look at today's covers and portraits, I see more and more photographs which are attempts to capture the character of the subject...
...that would include the National Security Council and the State, Defense, Treasury and Agriculture departments. Said he: "There cannot and will not be the backbiting and jockeying for position that have occurred from time to time. President-elect Carter feels strongly about this, and so do I." Subject to Carter's approval, Vance favors having the Secretary of the Treasury sit in on National Security Council meetings...
...to?or explanation of?his long periods of self-neglect. Neither did his aides. It was a subject that was not discussed, the way a close family might ignore a behavioral peculiarity of a distinctly eccentric but very rich uncle...