Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Widener's entries for books he has written in his varied career, and more. There are mementoes and reminders of events--programs from The Game and the Head of the Charles and other activities, and newspaper clippings, postcards,--all swirled together with water colors and magic markers into a vivid collage...
...with the rules of conduct and the prevailing manner of any people," wrote St. John de Crevecoeur in 1782 about his years in America, "is to examine what sort of education they give their children, how they treat them at home, and what they are taught." Among the most vivid documents tracing our evolving attitudes toward children are the works of American artists. Using their portraits as a kind of visual social history, Emory University Graduate Student Rosamund Humm organized a show called "Children in America," at Atlanta's High Museum of Art now through May 27. The show...
...which is over 100 years old, can scarcely concern Meyerowitz. The Cape Cod photographs were motivated by an essentially romantic, lyrical, personal desire not merely to record experience but to describe it. In photographing an object or event, he is loyal primarily to his feelings, to his refined and vivid emotional impression of whatever his eye lands on; and, to somewhat warp and make literal a phrase of Wordsworth's, he throws over the photographed thing "a certain coloring of imagination." The hot oranges, yellow and pinks of pillows filling a couch struck by sunlight, the sharp whiteness...
...prickling. But one should finally trust and retrieve from this argument the photographs themselves: the best of them -- two pictures of clothes-lines, a glass-topped table, a couple of porches, and one, in the Harcus Krakow gallery, which is merely a bare clean plane of water, seem poignantly vivid, simple, vestigial. They are worth seeing...
...press photographers that spared newspaper readers and television viewers the sight of the dead bodies of San Francisco Mayor George R. Moscone and City Councilman Harvey Milk? No: the coroner got there first and sealed up the rooms. Readers could be grateful nonetheless, so soon after being subjected in vivid detail to the carnage in Guyana...