Word: realist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also combined with personal fantasy, reverie and wit. The result has been a rather low-pressure art that refuses to strum on the heartstrings. For convenience, Szarkowski divides the images in this show into "mirrors"?pictures that mean to describe the photographer's own sensibility?and "windows"?realist photos of fact, including the facts of photography seen as a system. In short, the romantic vs. the realist: but it is not a very strict dichotomy, as Szarkowski himself stresses. The typical photo in this show, mirror or window, is cool, low in narrative content, linguistically sophisticated, beautifully made...
...mechanical engineer, not a social engineer," he says in his guise as realist. "I was an English major at Bates. The nearest I came to formal science was a minor in geology. That's all right. The Teton Dam and the Hartford Civic Center were both designed by engineers. The state of Maine's made up of tinkerers -they'll tackle anything-and maybe that's what the world needs...
...David Kahn, author of the highly regarded study of cryptology, The Codebreakers, compellingly proves, espionage is the realistic assessment of possibilities; and Hitler, in whom all power centered, was a charismatic leader, not a realist. Like sharks, such leaders prosper only when they move constantly forward. To stand still, basking in certainty, is to drown...
Miner), her best friend and a kind of Falstaffian mother-hen realist, knows better, partly because she has read the morning society news announcing Ellis' fiancee. It is not Dorothea...
...blacks to serve along with whites in the country's civil service. Declared British Foreign Secretary David Owen: "I am unrepentant in going for what I believe to be an ideal solution, which is a cease-fire and total involvement of the nationalist leaders. But I am a realist. It may be that that cannot be achieved...