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...most immediately noticeable aspect of “Lincoln’s Smile and Other Enigmas” is a giant photograph of Abraham Lincoln’s craggy face staring out from the cover. But in spite of the photograph??s prominence, the key word in the title of Alan Trachtenberg’s new book is not “Lincoln,” but “enigmas.”Honest Abe figures only slightly in one of the book’s essays, and even then it is not so much Abraham Lincoln...
...photograph is captivating. Strong, thick lines of wood run up and across the photograph, stopping only to frame against the sky this man, who, in contrast to the rugged forms, works with an arresting fluidity.A photograph of four boys playing in long, dry grasses is even more striking. This photograph??characteristic of Rockefeller’s best images—combines compositional creativity and an emotional congruence with the subject, while forgoing the pretensions of photojournalism. The grass becomes an abstract background on which the boys float, frolicking with a disarming intensity. There is very little visual context...
Alejos’ best photographs succeed for reasons as diverse as his subject matter. Lighting is what makes “San Juan de Dios Hospital” a great photograph??the sun comes from three large windows, bounces off the plaster walls, and illuminates each immaculate hospital bed with gradually increasing intensity towards the back of the room. As the hospital beds recede, the hospital employees arc out from the rear of the room towards us, and their dress changes from the dark suits in the rear to white robes in the front...
...Harvard Crimson, I oversee all things photography-related (that’s in my job description) as well as many things design-, layout-, and production-related (not in my job description). Once upon a time last spring, a designer had done a cutout of a person in a photograph??that is, he removed the background of the photo, leaving only the person’s figure. Or at least, he attempted...
...meeting for the Cub Scouts and I remembered something about a pyramid. In just 45 minutes I build an impressive looking tower of sticks of varying sizes, filled on the inside with crumpled newspaper. It burns brilliantly—just long enough for me to take a proud, paternal photograph??before the paper burns away and the tower remains, singed but standing...