Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aerospace industry, where total employment has been static at about 968,000 for the past three years. Nearly 30% of the Air Force spending on the YF-16 would flow to Fort Worth; another large slice would go to the plants in Connecticut and Florida where Pratt & Whitney will build the YF-16s' $1.5 million jet engines. General Dynamics last year overtook Lockheed as the U.S.'s largest defense contractor (total 1974 sales: about $2 billion), but the order comes at a time when the company needs a long-term contract to pick up the slack caused...
...went to the poor. 52. Shirley Temple Black,ambassador to Ghana. 53. Mary Lease, Kansas populist, 1890. 54. "We want beer!" 55. Changing his habits would be bad for morale. 56. "They can learn so quickly with their hands they are like monkeys." 57. Gross National Happiness. 58. Richard Whitney; the New York Stock Exchange. 59. Sing Sing Prison; embezzlement. 60. "How long will it take and how much will it cost?" 61. Wealthy people should have multiple votes. 62. Samuel Insull. The testimony of bankrupt stockbrokers--but he was acquitted anyway. 63. In a poker game. 64. Riding freight...
...realities which are known to be significant to our lives and gives them coherent visual expression. This "Flame of Recognition," to use Nancy Newhall's description of Edward Weston, is what lies behind any great photographer. The absence of Friedlander, Winogrand and their co-workers from the Whitney's show is emblematic of Doty's failure to comprehend this, but his miscomprehension of what makes for good photography also shows up in his failure to hang the best photographs by several of the "classic" photographers. Doty's treatment of Edward Steichen and Alfred Steiglitz, both closely associated with the "pictorialist...
Every disaster has its benefits, however, and this particular show is not an exception. There is a wonderful chance at the Whitney to see photographs and photographers which are not well-known, if for the moment you ignore that almost all of them deserve to be obscure. Among the better examples are several photographs by Edward Weston from his very early pictorial period. These are quite rare--largely because later in his life he so disliked the pictures that he destroyed the negatives--but quite interesting to someone who knows mostly Weston's other work...
...despite their $25 price tag. But if photography is to become more than a fad and be recognized for the serious aesthetic potential which it does have, its new proponents will have to develop a far better sense of the medium's history and possibilities than Doty and the Whitney demonstrate in this show...