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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...
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...
...fall of individuals like Whitney can serve only one purpose: to remind people, in the middle of a more drawn out but no less extensive stock market crash than that of 1929, of the dangers and iniquities of a system in which economic control lies in the hands of a hereditary oligarchy, a system whose basic criminality is never very far from the surface...