Word: taught
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Photography not only provided this century with two of the things it likes best--greater realism and superior fantasies--but also showed how deeply entwined they can be. Circa 1900, ambitious photographers aspired to pictures that resembled paintings. Then came modernism, which taught them to rethink the characteristics of their own medium. Sharp focus, accidental arrangements and the just-the-facts stuff that cameras provide became a new path to the supreme fictions of art. Of the pleasures cameras give us, the transfiguration of plain reality is the most indispensable. It implies that the world is more than it seems...
...Scriptures, Luke 11: 33, we are taught, "No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden." Now, y'all know the queen got her start singing in the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit. People say she left the sacred for the secular, forsook gospel for pop. But, truth is, as her father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin, said, "Truth is, Aretha hasn't ever left the church...
...evening I heard this kid playing a Chopinpiece he had taught himself," Clement Leslie says."He sort of heard his mother play it from time totime...and he taught himself...
...When you really find your passion, the best isdemanded of you because your heart is pushing youto do it," he says. "Being self-taught has forcedme to really be free in terms of my expression...
...Serre is no fictional genius. He receivedthe medal in 1954 for his work on spectralsequences and complex variable theory involvingsheaves. Since then, he has taught at Harvard andthe College de France...