Articles Tagged with #portraitsbyothermeans
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Interviews
Painting the President
Twice the official portraitist of George W. Bush, painter Robert Anderson explains what it’s like to build a relationship with a president, separate the man from the legacy, and struggle with his smirk.
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Gallery
Terminal Bar
Portraits of the hustlers, businesswomen, singers, and teachers who were regulars at one of Manhattan’s most notorious dives.
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Gallery
History of Magic
Paintings full of ceremony, mysticism, and sisterhood that remain electric with desire, even when the object of desire is a mystery.
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Gallery
Grace Happens
Tobacco farmers, churchgoers, and signs of rapid growth crop up like kudzu along North Carolina’s Highway 15-501, aka Tobacco Road.
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Gallery
We Shall
Masterful portraits from 10 years of photographing the west side of Chicago.
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Gallery
Slight Exposure
Found photographs hand-altered with embroidery and collage, transforming pictures that were somehow incomplete.
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Soliloquies
Sometimes beauty appears only for a short instant, as a flash of visual energy. It’s the photographer’s job to wait, observe, and then pounce.
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Portraits by Other Means
Misogyny Soup
Aristotle There is no doubt that Aristotle’s texts are misogynist; he thought that women were inferior to men and he said so explicitly. For example, to cite Cynthia...
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Portraits by Other Means
To Sleep, Perchance to Lose Consciousness
Salvador Dalí Salvador Dalí wrote about this technique that he called “Slumber with a key.” He featured it as one of his 50 secrets of magic craftsmanship....
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Portraits by Other Means
Mind the Law
John Henry Browne “Attorney John Henry Browne,” read a headline on the cover of Pacific, a Seattle news magazine. “He shoots from the hip to defend the...
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Portraits by Other Means
Work, Work, Work, Die
Ron Akana, longest-serving flight attendant Yes, Mr. Akana has worked as a flight attendant for 63 years, clocking some 20 million miles along the way, the equivalent of circling the globe about 800...
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Portraits by Other Means
Get Me Out of Here
Centennial, Wyo. ...I liked Centennial, with its funky main drag, its ancient police car parked near the highway to deter speeders and, when I first arrived, its five bars to...