Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inaugural issue is mainly no table for the influence of Paris Match, a firm faith in black and white photographs as well as color, and an emphasis on energy and human interest rather than elegance of design. It contains a previously unpublished, 17-year-old interview with Marilyn Monroe and some all too predictable pictures of the likes of Brooke Shields and Princess Caroline (after all, the word cliche means photograph in French). The most dramatic journalistic coup is a picture essay using exclusive photographs taken in Jonestown just before the mass suicide. A colorful jab at conspicuous consumption...
Humphreys has long benefited from Blanton's particular quantity of mercy. Two months after entering prison, Humphreys was made a trusty, assigned to work as a photographer for the state's tourist development department, loaned a state-owned automobile and even given an expense account. On one trip, he took along his second wife Leslie to photograph a golf tournament. Blanton had defended Humphreys as a "fine young man" and vowed to release him before leaving office, despite the opposition of a citizens' review panel and members of the state legislature. After his release from prison last...
...voice is soft, almost diffident, but it is powerful enough to have spurred the collapse of a 53-year-old dynasty. In his home country, nearly everybody utters his name with reverence; his photograph, hawked on virtually every Iranian street corner, is now as ubiquitous as the Shah's portrait once was. Yet little is known of the private life and thought of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the enigmatic patriarch of 32 million Shi'ite Muslims who regard him as their guiding light...
...Martian morning in midsummer. The clouds rimming the volcano are seasonal, limited to spring and summer; scientists postulate that they may be formed when ice condenses from the atmosphere as it cools while moving up the crater's flanks. Hovering beyond, at the upper left corner of the photograph, is a "cloud train," a common formation on the downwind side of mountains...
...while the real peach rots." Photography's grip on reality can seem so compellingly firm and immediate that it is liable to be more persuasive, and pernicious, in its distortions, evasions and half-truths than any other imagemaking medium. Accordingly, the same peach can rot much faster in a photograph than in a painting or poem, and is likely to rot all the more completely. Even the percipient mind that recognizes beauty in all things, and that understands how an artist's only honest task is to be faithful to his vision of that beauty, must feel suspicious and confused...