Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PHOTOGRAPHY IS NOT Art, but there is art in photography," declared Man Ray about 1930. The Whitney Museum of American Art should have heeded his warning...
...several artists to explore the "creative" potential of photography and his warning, almost fifty years old now, prophesied the most important developments in photography during those ensuing years. "Photography in America," however, the Whitney's attempt at a retrospective of the medium in this country, seems to have ignored what Ray's insights meant. This show is the Whitney's first photo show after a long period of vehemently refusing to show the medium, and one is almost tempted to hope that it will also be the last...
Tension, Tension. If his genius is joyous insanity, his approach is in painstaking earnest. He spends more than a year laboring on each script. "What you're after," he explains, "is to make a Mount Whitney of a picture. What you settle for is a wonderful snowball." The time in between, he says, is agony -"compression, remolding and restructuring-tension, tension, tension...
...Whitney's memory, therefore, stay green...
...Died. Richard Whitney, 86, Harvard-educated, Depression-era Stock Exchange president and embezzler; in Far Hills, N.J. By wandering the floor of the exchange on "Black Thursday," Oct. 24, 1929, as the representative of a banking consortium, and bidding high on blue chip stocks, Whitney earned credit for temporarily stemming the 1929 crash. Elected president of the New York Stock Exchange, he lived regally, took to embezzling, and was convicted and sent to Sing Sing in 1938 in the scandal of the decade...