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When he went to LIFE in 1936, as its first issue was going to press, Mydans was fresh from the fabled team of photographers for the U.S. Farm Security Administration--Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange among them--whose pictures would become our collective memory of the Depression. From them, he learned the moral dimension of photography and its power to turn life into theater. During World War II, he and his wife were captured by the Japanese in Manila and spent nearly two years in prison camps. But he was released in time to take his famous shot of General...
...When he went to LIFE in 1936, as its first issue was going to press, Mydans was fresh from the fabled team of photographers for the U.S. Farm Security Administration?Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange among them?whose pictures would become our collective memory of the Depression. From them, he learned the moral dimension of photography and its power to turn life into theater. During World War II, he and his wife were captured by the Japanese in Manila and spent nearly two years in prison camps. But he was released in time to take his famous shot of General...
...during the Cultural Revolution as a capitalist roader and an archrevisionist, Deng rejoined the Chinese leadership in 1972-73 under the auspices of Premier Zhou Enlai. It was just at that time that the U.S. arrived permanently in Beijing with its Liaison Office, headed in 1974 by George Herbert Walker Bush. When these two men met, Deng?the short, tough revolutionary from Sichuan in central China?and Bush?the tall, ambitious and smart ?litist from America's Northeast?the chemistry was immediate. Deng saw Bush as an American who some day would lead his country, and Bush saw in Deng...
COVER: Photograph for TIME by Diana Walker. INSET: Photograph for TIME by Callie Shell--Aurora
...Finlayson likes to meet and greet her townsfolk. To an outsider, the 49 metal sculptures appear almost extraterrestrial, with their pointy heads and pixie feet. But to a Menziesite, each is uniquely human. "This is one of the tribal elders," says Finlayson, 56, by way of introduction to Paddy Walker - or rather his sculpture, as the shire president and trained nurse greets many of them by name. In mid-afternoon light, the figures seem to materialize and dissolve from the mirage that looms on the lake's horizon. Further around, Finlayson says g'day to the town policeman...