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In the 1830s the Afrikaners decided to escape English rule by setting forth on their Great Trek, which over the years has acquired the epic aura of a Long March or a Valley Forge. Packing their women and children into ox-drawn wagons, some 6,000 Afrikaners departed from the...
Sternfeld's America looks inhabited but never quite settled, full of lovelorn suburban tracts and derelict factories where the banshees howl through the rusting work sheds. When recession comes -- a number of these pictures were taken during the slump of 1981-82 -- the oldest company towns in New England fall...
Again and again, however, the eye goes back to a more sober image, Canyon Country, California, June 1983, one of Sternfeld's infrequent portraits. A man sits before the camera with his arm around a young girl who appears to be his daughter. He looks at the lens. She looks...
Of course, we ought not limit our strategic weapons simply to boars; they merely represent the beginning. A whole class of Nature's Weapons (NWs) sits out there in the American wilderness, each animal ready to do its part for the United States by serving in what we might call...
The novelty in Dijkstra's approach is that he has illustrated his tour through fin-de-siecle fantasy not only with such masters as Degas or Klimt but with more than 300 of the new photographic reproductions that were spreading art's pernicious messages through popular magazines. Hypocrisy was the...