Word: telethons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eighteen months ago the two found their real calling. Convinced that the "visual reality of commercial television" had become "the most important force in the country," they formed a company called Telethon to document that reality off the TV screen. Telethon's first big project is a traveling show called The Television Environment-a thoroughly engaging, nonstop bombardment of slides and live TV that is currently playing at art museums in Vancouver, B.C., Berkeley and Pasadena, Calif., Tallahassee, Fla., and Baltimore...
...actual telethon-Jerry Lewis' 17th annual for muscular dystrophy in 1968-was "the landmark in both our lives," according to Adler, that led to their present exhibit. "We sat up for the entire 19 hours, taking notes," he recalls. "Both of us are fascinated with TV when it is doing real things, as it is during a telethon." Among the other indelible events for Adler and Margolies, they say, were the Pope's 1965 visit to Yankee Stadium and, in 1969, the funeral of President Eisenhower. A couple of years ago, they began photographing images from the screen...