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...Hale is an ideal laboratory for the studio's architectural experiment. This region of west-central Alabama is one of the poorest stretches in the nation. The writer James Agee and the photographer Walker Evans passed the summer of 1936 here while preparing their Depression-era classic "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." While prosperity has come to parts of this area, the region is still dotted with the shacks chronicled in Evans' haunting photographs...
Exactly eight years ago this week, I walked into President George Herbert Walker Bush's White House (actually, it was the old Executive Office Building) to visit a friend, Jim Pinkerton, who was then a domestic affairs policy adviser to the elder Bush. I was stunned by Pinkerton's pessimism about Bush's race against young Clinton. It was only mid-September, I said. But then Pinkerton introduced me to some of the people on the White House staff and the Bush campaign. I saw Pinkerton's point: No energy, no ideas, a stupefied sense of entitlement, brownouts in blue...
DIED. EDWARD CRAVEN WALKER, 82, unabashed nudist and inventor of the oozing 1960s groovy-soothing lava lamp; in Ringwood, England. After the lamp buyer at Harrod's found Walker's display of sculptural, sinuous paraffin-and-oil globs "disgusting," Walker took it elsewhere and hit big. "You can avoid going on drugs," he once said. "If you have a lava lamp, you won't need them...
...more photographs of the Gore campaign by Diana Walker, go to time.com
...DIANA WALKER materialized half a dozen times to photograph the Gore campaign in action--and then disappeared. "When you want to be a fly on the wall, you don't want to wear out your welcome," she says. To capture the candidate at rest, away from the podiums and microphones, Walker uses quiet cameras and no lights. Then she sits and waits for moments of truth...