Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...viewer can miss such parallels as the one between this seemingly innocuous face and George the hairdresser's zipper: both are respectable facades covering much more menacing organs. But beyond such breathtakingly contemporary and decidedly hip statements, the movie does little more than pay homage to Hollywood's God, Tinsel, who beneficently provides Beatty, who wrote the script, with enough ribbons and bows to wrap up this relic from some moviemakers' junkyard and offer it as something new. The context is modern but the story is old, so that the viewer is left feeling like someone who goes...
...ROMAGNOLIS' TABLE. PBS, Sundays 7:00 p.m. E.D.T. For the viewer-cook inclined to split piselli, it must be said that Pa and Ma (Italian-born Franco and Irish-English Margaret) Romagnoli are a bit offhand. He says add a cup of vinegar, but what he does is slosh a slug of it into a wineglass, eye it with a shrug, and toss it in. A few Romagnoli dishes - hot Swiss chard with olive oil, spareribs and sausages mired in thick sauce - are the sort of thing only an Italian mama could love. But these are piffling objections. This...
...casual-seeming that it is as if their frames enclose not a work of art, but a transparent "peephole" to the physical event that Rosenblum recorded. They are almost like the leaves of a family snapshot album, so direct is the affair they seem to engender between the viewer and the viewed...
...without chronology there can be no perspective, and without perspective there is no history. The viewer is thus left with a winding gallery of glimpses. Some of those glimpses are indelible. The late Georges Bidault, ex-Premier of France, remembers the time before the fall of Dien Bien Phu: "John Foster Dulles asked me, 'And if we were to give you two atomic bombs?' " An intelligence officer recalls the distaste American soldiers had for mutilating bodies. Instead of terrorizing North Vietnamese with human eyes stuck on the back of a corpse (a psy-war trick), the Americans made...
...tedious banality of everyday man. Every wrinkle, every paunch and every over-made-up face is starkly immortalized. When the snapshot does confront its subject, its look is electric. The nakedness with which people's eyes reveal their often distasteful natures comes as a shock to the viewer. Herein lies one of snapshot photography's greatest pitfalls, however. At its best, the style is revealing of humanity in day to day existence, but at its worst, it seeks out human ugliness for sheer shock value. None of the photographs in The Snapshot are representative of this trend...