Word: western
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tourists in 18th century Italy sometimes carried a smoked lens called a Claude Glass, through which the landscapes of the Roman Campagna could be seen in the mellow brown tone of Claude Lorrain's canvases. To that public, Adams is as American as John Wayne: the last portraitist of Western sublimity...
...Adams' first portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras, was privately published in 1927, he was a fine technician who did not know much about the history of his own medium. He had not seen, or at any rate had not noticed, the work of his 19th century predecessors, Western landscape photographers like Carleton E. Watkins and Timothy H. O'Sullivan. He was still influenced by the so-called pictorialists, photographers given to arty blurs and poses. He also disliked the canonical painters of the American sublime, Bierstadt and Moran. "Indians and bears walking out to the edge of cliffs...
...lyrics of a new country-and-western ditty that has come out of Atlanta and was written by Georgia's Lieutenant Governor Zell Miller. Miller's lament may never make the Top Forty, but a great many of his countrymen surely share his gloom about having to "do without." As in past times of leaping prices and deepening economic slump, Americans are taking seriously the task of cutting back their household budgets...
...across the Atlantic full of tales of shopping bargains and cheap travel. No longer. Today, most return with their wallets empty, their credit cards fully charged and their spirits shaken by how little the dollar now buys. Many wonder just how Europeans can afford to live at all in Western Europe, let alone so well...
Kicking up a storm in Western footwear...