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THERE is a place in John McPhee's new collection of magazine articles, Pieces of the Frame, where two photographers from New York City go up in the country to cut some firewood. They stop on the way to rent a chainsaw at a place called Paden Rental and, they...
American spy-story stereotypes about Eastern Europe are not far from accurate. The security and police systems were as tight and pervasive as I had been led to believe they would be. The bureaucracy is massive and often impenetrable. Freedom of travel, of information, and of expression are virtually non...
And it is astonishing that the South African government has allowed the two plays to tour, not only in South Africa itself, but also throughout the world, when it has at its disposal the convenient Robben Island of a traditionally unscrupled police force. Even if South Africa has been in...
In Sleeper, Woody Allen's film about America in the year 2173, one of the characters explains how the northeastern part of the U.S. was obliterated: "A man by the name of Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead." The real-life Albert Shanker, leader of New York...
Dark Edges. Like Cartier-Bresson, Avedon gives us everything he and the lens record, including the dark edges of the film itself. This sharp edge forces the eye inward to the details effaces and nuances of expression. Avedon's pictures are lean, made with soft daylight and bouncelight against...