Elton John's collection
debuts at High Museum
British pop superstar Elton John recently helped organize nearly 400 of the 2,500 of the photographic images he owns into an exclusive exhibit at Atlanta's High Museum of Art.
"Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection" includes such work as Dorthea Lange's classic Depression-era portrait to the timeless icon Bert Stern created of Marilyn Monroe. But it doesn't shy away from more contemporary photographers such as Herb Ritts and Andres Serrano.
John spoke to an audience at the Atlanta Symphony Hall about the photographs that sparked his love of the medium.
"Those images I saw were so beautiful and timeless and exquisite," John said, as quoted in a CNN.com article.
The exhibit runs through 28 January 2001. [2001.01] TOP
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After a 50-year career,
a journalist gets his due
Although a contemporary of such legendary photojournalists as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Eisenstaedt, Morris Berman languished in relative obscurity.
Until now.
An exhibit at the West Valley Art Museum in Sun City, Ariz., showcased Berman's work, which took him around the world and spanned a half-century, much of it at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The show and Berman's lectures drew crowds to which he was unaccustomed.
"I never thought people would have been interested in these pictures, or that these things would mean that much to anyone else," Berman told Phoenix New Times reporter Edward Lebow in a recent article.
From documenting the death of Italian fascist Benito Mussolini and covering daily assignments of accident scenes, to portraits of the Beatles and capturing one of Sports Illustrated's top 100 sports photographs of all time, Berman's images form a cross-section of American history.
The 91-year-old photojournalist will deliver another lecture at the museum 26 January 2001. [2001.01] TOP
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The New Times presents a sample of the exhibit.
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Historic examples show
how doctored photos lie
One of the first casualties of Joseph Stalin's dictatorial rule was truth.
Now, decades of doctored photographs used as a propaganda are laid out, with full view of the images before and after they were altered, in an online Newseum exhibit.
"The Commissar Vanishes" contains photos from the London-based David King Collection that show how government officials who fell out of favor were airbrushed out of political portraits, while dissident political slogans are turned into innocuous advertisments. [2001.01] TOP
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