Word: view
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prices are soaring (see box). But it can hardly be called a large audience. Most people are immersed in a daily stream of documentary photographs from newspapers, magazines and television. The purpose of these images is information; they are scanned, milked, passed over. From that documentary point of view there is something perverse and excessive in the very idea of paying thousands of dollars for a single photo, a sum which a decade ago would have brought home three or four moderately good Rembrandt etchings...
...doing it over several years, it began to mean more. I was seeing more. Then I got better cameras. Then I began to separate things, to see them more clearly." The first picture he took that he thinks of as "fully visualized" as a photograph was in 1927: a view of Half Dome from the west ridge, which he caused "to look how it feels?a huge, monumental thing" by means of a dark red filter. "Visualization"?deciding in advance how a photo will look, rather than clicking away in the hope of a fortunate accident?is the essence...
...isolate Adams' contribution to the language of photography, the show at MOMA concentrates on his landscapes. (The only human artifact in the exhibit is a low stone wall in front of an early view of Yosemite Valley.) The show enables one to see Adams' early and late prints from the same negative, and the difference is interesting. The early ones are of ravishing delicacy; they have a subtlety of discrimination, a continuity of surface tone that are essentially lyric. But by middle age, Adams' work began to shift. In the darkroom, he was conducting from the negative's score?pushing...
...never tires of saying that his aim is not to give service to customers, wages to workers, or taxes to governments, though all of that is necessary. "The objective," he intones, "is to reward those who make the business possible by investing their capital in it: the shareholders." That view might seem outrageous, were it not that customers give generally high marks to Citizens' service. Remarkable in the unglamorous utilities business, Citizens last year earned a walloping 19% after taxes on revenues of $108 million from sales of electricity, water, gas, telephone, and sewage services to some 500 communities...
...Rosenthal wants to see capital grow throughout the economy by radically changing the source of much that is wrong in the U.S.: its tax system. In his view, the system fosters too many tax shelters, expense-account freeloaders and assorted cheaters. It penalizes achievement because it taxes salaries at rates up to 50% and capital (in the form of dividends and interest...