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...wind-blown surfaces of Northern California and the Southwest as his own, by territorial right of imagery. His pictures include some of the grand cliches of modern American photography, but they are cliches Adams has a prescriptive right to, since he invented them. What Edward Weston did for driftwood and bell peppers Ansel Adams did for mountains, rivers and rocks: recording them with a grave and highly deliberate formal density, he gave their images an extraordinary presence that hovers at the edge of abstraction. In the process he became the last practitioner of a 19th century mode-epic landscape...
Armed with toolboxes and traveling in dented pickup trucks, they prospect in garbage dumps, abandoned houses, cut-over timberlands, deserted beaches. Their haul seems shabby: driftwood, salvaged lumber, squares of flooring, old banisters, fragments of stained glass. But to the foragers, these gleanings are golden. Months or even years later, their booty reappears in the recycled glory of selfstyled, handmade homes...
...Paul Strand--an exhibit of over 500 photos--at the Museum of Fine Arts till December 10, we can observe Strand's spirit of search. His efforts were directed toward finding the emotional significance of the object. For his early work in the 1920's he shot trees, gnarled driftwood, machines--close--ups of plants and rocks. His work with close-ups led Strand to explore the world of human portraits. At one polar, he experimented with the idea of photographing people when they were answers that they were in view of the camera. This he did by attaching...
...Skinner, manager of Vero Beach's Driftwood Inn, has a happy complaint: "Our business is up 20% from last year, and our rear ends are really dragging." Miami Beach's Hotel Fontainebleau posted a record 90% occupancy rate from November through April. This month it has booked an unprecedented five conventions-each taking up 1,000 rooms-and recently it turned down a booking for October 1977-because all rooms are already sold out. Earlier this year some hoteliers overbooked so egregiously that they had to turn away irate tourists who had confirmed reservations. In February, 150 people...
Sculpture has been made from driftwood, crushed car bodies, paper and holes in the ground, so why not from photographs? No reason at all, say a growing number of young American and Canadian artists. During the past few years they have been adding a third dimension to photography by sealing photographs in plastic, molding them into shapes and building them into complex structures that transform the original picture. Most of these sculptor-photographers work on the West Coast, and many have studied at U.C.L.A. with Robert Hei-necken, at 38 the old master of the genre. This week some...