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Yet another interesting exhibit in Gotham:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/26/arts/design/26look.html
I've never seen most of the photos shown in the article (the Dali photo is a stunner, and likely only slightly less P.C. then than now...but he always did like pushing people's buttons), but an interesting factoid is revealed in one of the photos, taken by a very young Look photographer by the obscure name of Stanley Kubrick. Can't tell what he's shooting with in that pic (a mirror shot in a dreessing room, where he was photographing a showgirl), although it's clearly a 35mm RF of some sort. I'll have a better look at the exhibit.
This reminds me of the short-lived relaunch of Look in the early 80s, alongside a resurrected Life. I preferred Look's harder-edged journalistic format, and their extensive use of photography in the first handful of issues. (I have the first issue, with a gritty color shot of Nelson Rockefeller). I think that their bi-weekly schedule might have been a bit overambitious, and might have ended up doing them in, although I loved it. And now I look at the thin, limp copies of Time and Newsweek on the newssstands, and I know an era has long, long passed.
- Barrett
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/26/arts/design/26look.html
I've never seen most of the photos shown in the article (the Dali photo is a stunner, and likely only slightly less P.C. then than now...but he always did like pushing people's buttons), but an interesting factoid is revealed in one of the photos, taken by a very young Look photographer by the obscure name of Stanley Kubrick. Can't tell what he's shooting with in that pic (a mirror shot in a dreessing room, where he was photographing a showgirl), although it's clearly a 35mm RF of some sort. I'll have a better look at the exhibit.
This reminds me of the short-lived relaunch of Look in the early 80s, alongside a resurrected Life. I preferred Look's harder-edged journalistic format, and their extensive use of photography in the first handful of issues. (I have the first issue, with a gritty color shot of Nelson Rockefeller). I think that their bi-weekly schedule might have been a bit overambitious, and might have ended up doing them in, although I loved it. And now I look at the thin, limp copies of Time and Newsweek on the newssstands, and I know an era has long, long passed.
- Barrett
