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...only a few of Eggleston's images have titles), in which mauve lupins are almost lost against a background of chrome yellow flowers under a cerulean sky. And an art deco cinema in Morton, Missouri, photographed between 1970 and '74, is floodlit in green against a purple sunset...
Nagasaki's neighborhoods are closely packed, an environment ideal for a leisurely, if oftentimes uphill, wander. Start at the Nakashima River in the old downtown area. Stone bridges crisscross the ancient waterway every hundred meters or so; the most notable is Spectacles Bridge-so named because at sunset the waterborne reflection of the bridge's double arches creates the illusion that the river's orange and white carp are swimming within the frames of a pair of eyeglasses. I climb down to the bank for a better look and the fish crowd greedily around me, nudging their large snouts...
...Atanarjuat has the clarity of a dream. The northern sky is so bright it could give a viewer sunburn. In the film's long chase scene, when Atanarjuat runs naked across the snowy wastes to escape Oki, cinematographer Norman Cohn catches the majestic subtleties of Arctic dawn, noon and sunset...
...when he went to the Royal College in 1996, after a break of seven years, was to copy a list of some 2,000 works shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1979, thinking that reconstructing them would keep him busy. "The first title was something like Sunset in the Dordogne," Shaw recalls. But he had never been anywhere like the Dordogne. So he thought: "I'll do sunset over the garages round the back of me dad's house, rather than going and looking for somewhere that looks like art." Shaw paints places that should hold a jolly...
...toward an enormous billboard for Minority Report, his dark and timely new movie directed by Steven Spielberg, opening this week. Stuck in traffic, he gazes up at his famous profile and laughs. "The kids always go, 'There's Dad!'" he says. "I remember seeing a Risky Business billboard on Sunset. That was pretty exciting...