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...John A. Walker Jr., charged in 1985 with spying for the Soviet Union...
Both the phone call and the traceable deposits were careless tradecraft on Ames' part, particularly given the intelligence climate in Washington. The year before, so many Americans had been discovered spying for Moscow -- Edward Lee Howard, Ronald Pelton, John Walker -- that the press had dubbed 1985 "the year of the spy." Pelton and Howard had both been exposed by Yurchenko, the senior KGB officer who had been debriefed by Ames and others before redefecting three months later...
...Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
Ward further explores the relationship between light and man in the next work, The Rev. Robert walker, Skating (1993). However, this time, he expands the scope of the work to involve the viewer--the physical, real human--rather than simply providing a static image of human interaction seen in the first work. The image is projected on a white wall at the entrance to the gallery. By opening the doors and letting in light, we momentarily disrupt the picture. Ivan Gaskell best describes the scenario in the exhibition's catalogue, "[W]e are playing our part as performers as well...
...into the gallery hypothetically provides the necessary light to convert this negative image into a "real" image- ("real" meaning a work of realism and representation). Ward challenges the viewer's perception and vision through this work by providing an alternative, yet similar view of the world. The Rev. Robert walker skates on black ice on a dark day. His attire is pure white, not the traditional dark suit of a reverend. And his face is as dark as the background, distinguishable because of the small traces of white that outline the contour of his profile. We are able to identify...