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Yankee Boomer. Few living photographers have exposed themselves or their film to such a range of coups, revolts, massacres and civil wars. The man is an anthology of risk (the Yankee boomer from the Midwest, living out his own adventure yarn), and the egotism is as extreme as the bravery. Only Duncan, one feels, could have written a preface to one of his own books, Picasso's Picassos, calling it "the most exciting and valuable book in modern art today...
...Long Boy with his floozy, she observes that "he got that silly, dazed grin like a torn cat being choked to death with cream." Like that extravagant expression, the book is a long, tall, oldtime tale. But as Addie might put it, in the right hands that kind of yarn has a lot of prance left...
...lived harmoniously and respectfully with the earth. James Houston's particular over-the-shoulder look picks out an imagined Eskimo community at the moment of its intersection with Western life. A painter who spent twelve years in the Canadian Arctic, Houston was intrigued by an oldtimer's yarn of a lost whaleboat crew found wandering on the ice floes by Eskimos in 1896. The three men lived a year among their rescuers, only to be killed by them in the end. The White Dawn is Houston's crisp and delicate reconstruction of that tale...
...Angeles doctor takes old X-ray pictures, adds a little yarn edging and creates startling place mats. In Research Engineer Peter Gottlieb's West Los Angeles home, one child sleeps happily beneath a headboard made of bright cartons of Screaming Yellow Zonkers, a beloved popcorn product. Or consider Dr. Richard Gieser's sparkling decor in Wheaton, Ill.: his sofa is an old bathtub on legs, with one side cut away, lined with pillows. His favorite chair is another tub, upended. It has, Mrs. Gieser says, "a nestlike quality...
STORYTELLING is a fickle art. A bad narrator can spin the thinnest yarn into a golden web. If the listener's imagination is to be ensnared, delicate tonalities of setting, suspense and mystery must be orchestrated to perfection. The same can also be said of story theatre...