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Occasionally Brendan chimes in with a funny one-liner or a question for Elana. But he seems distant and confused, usually entering the conversation only to insult Nick. Brendan, understated in a gray long-sleeve oxford, points out Nick’s pink gingham shirt. “He’s a sketchy guy,” Brendan leans in to tell Elana, motioning towards Nick. Brendan then returns to sitting and listening to Nick talk. He later scores a point by talking about a roommate from Redwood City, Calif. “That’s literally, like...
...office of Gordon Hinckley, the president of the Mormon church, leads through long carpeted corridors with wood-paneled walls and security doors that swing open noiselessly with no visible movement from the guards. It is like walking into a David Lynch movie. In these hushed precincts, groups of gray-haired men in identical black suits pass by, beaming smiles like undertakers. Everyone is scrupulously polite, but as a visitor, one feels that one has been dropped into the middle of a plot, without knowing the beginning...
However, daguerreotypy, in its execution, is a far more compelling art form than its more advanced sibling. Projected against a brushed silvery-gray background, the images emerge from the surface and possess an almost three-dimensional quality. The images shift slightly and appear to rotate as the viewer’s perspective changes, giving them a sense of life. Moreover, daguerreotypes possess greater individuality than photographs. Where from a single photographic negative, innumerable prints can be struck, each daguerreotype is composed of a single silver-coated copper plate from which no exact copies can be created. When viewed straight...
It’s 9:40 a.m. Tuesday morning and below freezing as the 61-year-old McClary, a Mattapan resident with a “Science Center” sweatshirt to match his gray hair, loads the 30-odd packages onto a dolly...
...face (also ostensibly Hauptman’s) hangs in profile, creating a somewhat schizophrenic effect for the viewer, simultaneously startling and intriguing. The scalloped, fancy plate and the elaborately detailed icing on the cake, rimmed with pink and edged with gold leaf, seem almost garish when compared to the gray charcoal blurriness of Hauptman’s dress and the gritty realistic nature of the two faces...