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...issues in its history. In addition to 15 pages of convention coverage, the magazine contains a 38-page Special Section, by far TIME'S largest Olympic undertaking. Under the direction of Assistant Managing Editor Walter Bingham and Senior Editor Jose M. Ferrer III, Special Projects Art Director Tom Bentkowski, along with dozens of writers, photographers, correspondents and reporter-researchers, put together a preview of the quadrennial event that offers not only a sense of its vastness but, in Ferrer's words, "creates a sense of focus. Our stories introduce a relatively small number of U.S. and foreign participants...
...selection and presentation of Images '83 was largely done by Special Projects Art Director Tom Bentkowski and Picture Researcher Mary Anne Golon, under the supervision of Executive Editor Ronald Kriss. Says Kriss, who has edited Images for the past five years: "We don't try to be comprehensive. We look first for the best pictures, then for those that illustrate major news events. Fortunately, the best news stories often generate the best pictures...
During the past ten weeks, Golon has looked at more than 20,000 photographs. After reducing this formidable total to 600, she, Bentkowski and Kriss made the final selections for the 22 pages of Images (plus two pages of Farewell obituaries). Says Golon: "It was a little like putting Niagara Falls through a sieve, but working with the world's best pictures is exhilarating...
...Bentkowski sums up the total effect of the section: "A photograph, being immediate and specific, theoretically cannot be an abstraction. But these pictures, combined with our visual memories of events from magazines, newspapers and TV, take on the power of abstraction. They tell, in capsule, the story of 1983, a year brilliantly seen through the camera's lens, thanks to the skill-even the genius-of the photographers who took them...
Researchers Eileen Chiu, Jane Furth, Villette Harris and Elizabeth D. Meyer spent five months helping him find the right words, while Picture Researcher Evelyn Merrin and the Time Inc. Picture Collection staff tracked down thousands of old photographs. As art director for the issue, Tom Bentkowski faced a particularly complex problem: recreating the typography and design that TIME used through the years. Some 300 format changes were fed into the magazine's computerized typesetting system, more than were required for the complete redesign of TIME...