1. Past masters.
- Author
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Naef, Weston
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PHOTOGRAPHY exhibitions , *PHOTOGRAPHERS , *CREATIVE ability - Abstract
Focuses on masters in photography, mentioning a book, lecture, and exhibition. William Henry Fox Talbot, who devised a process for making multiple positive paper prints; The quality of Lewis Hine's "Doffer Boys" (1909); The creativity of Alfred Stieglitz; Edward Weston's "Nude, Santa Monica" (1936); The emotional depth of Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" (1936), showing migrant agricultural worker Florence Owens during the Great Depression; Voyeurism in Usher Fellig's "Palace Theatre"; "Photographers of Genius at the Getty," showing at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Santa Monica, California until July 25.
- Published
- 2004