Word: subjecting
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...silent film was to the stage, early photography was to painting, sometimes. Day's early work is full of classical, symbolic subject matter-in 1898 he starved himself for weeks and then put on a crown of thorns so that he could photograph himself as Jesus and lift the camera to the realm of religious...
...precious works, the produce of a rich New Englander with good intentions and a penchant for Japanese knick-knacks. Looking at "Marble Faun," one wonders how Day took himself seriously. Historical sympathy will provide all the answers, of course, but the juxtaposition of photography with such old-fashioned subject matter and composition still seems unusual. It is strange to see sharp, crisp weeds that could be a picture in a biology textbook within the same frame as the 19th-century figure of the "Marble Faun." Day was trying to paint with a lens, pushing light instead of pulling it. Each...
...even the Hampstead series is freaked by the specter of white eccentricity. Day's milieu was like a gentle giant, fumbling to grasp exotic cultures, but instead squashing them under its thumb. He never antagonizes his many black, Algerian and working-class subjects, but he frequently objectifies them, making them into statues. Although his white nudes are more marmorial by virtue of their whiteness, they are always dignified by their reference to a classical subject, usually a god. On the other hand, the black nudes of Day's early career, the disadvantaged white youths of his later years and even...
...series, which portrays a young boy in the woods holding a lyre. "Nude Youth with Lyre," from 1907, is "Marble Faun" redone at a much higher level of technical mastery, and, more importantly, it is the work of an artist committed to his tastes. Day's love of classical subject matter was surely more than a symptom of his desire to prove that photography was a fine art. He seems to have been genuinely fascinated with the exotic and the mystical. The wallpapered gallery reminds us that we are essentially in Day's home, viewing works that were personal...
...contemporary culture. With global economics continually expanding, the threat to prominent Americans in regions of political turmoil is more acute than ever-thus negotiators with the steel-edged nerves needed to manipulate the most delicate of situations have become a critical necessity (not surprisingly, an extensive article on the subject served as the basis for the screenplay). In a sequence of terrifying simplicity, Bowman, who was commissioned to build a dam on the outskirts of Tescala, is merely driving to work when he encounters a barricade and is randomly snatched by men in ski-masks, who hustle him off into...