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Chronological File - November
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Approx. 35 items. Letters and memos. Subjects and correspondents include: several letters of regret when NBW did not accept invitations to speak or sit on panels due to, in his words, "my new role as consultant to Otis Chandler...makes my schedule so uncertain that I cannot undertake firm commitments"; (11/16) brief letter to Pierre Salinger (then living in France); in one letter (11/16) NBW reveals, "I'm usually at The Times Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, unless I'm on an out-of-town assignment for Otis Chandler"; (11/9) letter to Paul Ziffren on Picasso and his art; etc.
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"The place is South Africa. It is home to my family it is where I was raised ... I left. I left for professional reasons, to pursue picture-making in the capital of photography, New York City. I have been living outside of South Africa for eleven years now, but have returned annually to make pictures there over the past five years ... The attempts to represent the complexity of South Africa by photographing its diverse constituents seemed too obvious an approach ... I began to photograph my family and stayed with that subject, occasionally including the lives of close friends ... The text that accompanies some of the images in the book is drawn from excerpts from my own and extended family's letters ... In this book, the three specific locales I explore are: home interiors, gardens, and open landscape. Within each milieu are intersecting images and actions that both remind me of my personal story and act as a wider lens on how we, as a group, have projected our culture and history upon the land and its structures"--From introduction.
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Poo-chi
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Artist's Statement: "My artwork deals with the interaction between the real and the imaginary. My images arouse complex emotional responses: excitement, fear, and disgust. Extended viewing of my work reveals illusion and proves that seeing is deceiving. In the Poo Chi series, I transform adult (both male and female) anatomy into provocatively suggestive young girl's anatomy to elicit forbidden desires. The images reveal a child's desire for adult attention and at the same time expose adult fears of desire towards a sexualized child. Poo-Chi seduces the viewer to consider the ubiquity of forbidden desires. The imagery suggests penetration, however, no orifices exist within the image -- they only exist within the viewer's mind."
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Vest pocket pictures
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"A summarization of thoughts: my birthday, a Vest Pocket Kodak camera on my 23rd year. There were no ensuing years of 'photography'--except as a matter of curiosity. I discovered composition, even among prosaic sewer pipes, drab refuse incinerators, playful groups of friends, mountain hiking vistas. Now, decades in retrospect, my 'statements' have come alive at Craig Krull's Gallery. Viewed in an exhibit, they were acclaimed for their 'originality', 'boldness', and 'uniqueness' of my viewing of 'everyday' life. The culmination of three years of those essays of my life's 'adventures' occurred when I was taken by an architect to see a house by Richard Neutra. The prints I made from the six views I took so impressed Neutra that I was asked to photograph more of his designs. On a Saturday, March 5th, 1936 I became a photographer!"--From introduction.
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Johnson, Tom
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1 item: 130-pp. transcript of interview with Tom Johnson, Los Angeles Times Publisher. Subjects include: TJ describes his typical day at that time ; he feels "a great frustration in my inability to read everything in The Times...to read other publications that I feel [it] essential of read" ; getting used to the sheer size of LA and the scope of Los Angeles Times ; his thoughts about the quality of Los Angeles Times - "one of the finest news and editorial products in the nation," etc. ; the Hispanic market (p. 28) ; "I have the reputation of being a workaholic...(but) I love my work" (p.37) ; "Otis believes...in fitness and vacations and in time away to reflect..." (p.39) ; "off-duty" time, evenings, etc. ; memories of the Johnson White House, TJ's work in Texas ; job moves including Texas to Los Angeles, saying "my son may have paid the heaviest price" (p. 49) ; plans for upgrading of high technology equipment around the newspaper (p. 54) ; product improvement ; helping to prepare Norman Chandler (Otis' son) to "achieve his...aspirations" (p. 62-68) ; personnel ; 1980 newsprint shortage ; his interest in government and civic service vs. newspaper management ; "Mrs. Lyndon Johnson is one of my best friends" (p. 100) ; his youth, his mother and father (p. 105+) ; "I'm...39...I've never failed...(with) my son...we're going down a tough path right now" ; White House Fellows program (p. 124) ; more.
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