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...curiosity is aroused. In your article on the Tasaday tribe [Oct. 18] you state that these Stone Age people in the Philippines have no metal technology. Of what material, then, are the earrings that a tribesman is wearing in your accompanying photograph...
...invariably lean and telling. Duncan's instinct is for a photographic plain speech that puts all the emphasis where it belongs, on the subject, and almost none on the technique. At its best, this gives his pictures a marvellously laconic poetry, as in the shot of an Afghan tribesman washing his cups by the side of a lake in the Hindu Kush. Or a deserted cottage in Connemara, hemmed and compressed to the edge of survival between two gray bands of sky and tumbled rocks...
...motion shown, but the traveling feeling expressed. When he cuts into portraiture, his character's positions and the bent of their heads tells us much about their relationship. The transition into the next sequence is provided by a fast dissolve from a skyscape to the bottom of another tribesman's well. The image is shocking and apt; if the foregoing scenes emphasized brotherhood, the following ones will depict the narrow hatreds of a divided race...
Early in the life of Hair, she was in deed pregnant, and it was thought that she was going to have her baby onstage. Someone even claimed that Andy Warhol had taken pictures of her child's birth for Avant- Garde magazine. In terms of Hair, another tribesman paid Sally Eaton the ultimate compliment in likening her dressing room to Alices Restaurant; I regretted having missed that scene...
...Cover: Appliquéd banner by Norman Laliberté. The artist depicts no particular tribesman nor any specific art motif. "The Indian is much more universal," says Laliberté. "I tried to use the colors they use and to relate the Indian to the bird, representing freedom and peace." By positioning the bird atop the figure, Laliberté intends it as a kind of crown "to show the kingship and the power before the white man came...