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79Leland Stanford, Junior, Museum/Cantor Arts Center
Last weekend I visited the Stanford Museum/Cantor Arts Center to see Richard Avedon's "In the American West" photographs. The exhibit was well worth the hour drive from Berkeley. Moreover, in addition to the stunning Avedon photographs, we enjoyed the museum's huge Rodin collection, the paintings of the Leland Stanford family, including Mrs. Stanford's regal jewelry collection and a unique bronze sculpture of a horse by Deborah Butterfield.
71American Portraits deedsphotos
Photos may be enlarged by clicking on them. A second click may be used to enlarge a portion of a photograph. Obama in Berkeley Michelle Obama, Democratic Convention 2008 (Taken from HD TV) Obama...
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76Afghan Girl With Green Eyes
The photo of the Afghan girl with green eyes by Steve McCurry first appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 1985. Seventeen years later McCurry returned to Afghanistan and succeeded in locating the woman he had photographed so memorably as a girl. She remembered being angry at being photographed by McCurry for the first time in her life. But she allowed him to photograph her again.
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78Irving Penn's Extraordinary Portrait Photographs
At age 90 Irving Penn, the dean of American potrait photographers, continues his work in New York City. As did Richard Avedon, Penn began at Vogue magazine in the 1940s. Penn's portraits span time and subjects unmatched by any other photographer.
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73Manaus and Amazon Photographs deedsphotos
Manaus is located at the confluence of the Amazon and Rio Negro at which point the river is several miles wide. I took my small fixed lens camera and a couple of rolls of Kodak Tri-X film on the boat trip and bus tour. Here are some of the pictures.
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61AN EARLY MORNING STROLL DOWN HAIGHT STREET deedsphotos
Now boasting a Gap, a Ben and Jerry's and a McDonald's, the Haight-Ashbury ain't what it was in the 60's; but it still has it's share of tie-die emporiums and druggies and pan-handlers on the sidewalks. And...
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72I PAINT WHAT I SEE A Ballad of Artistic Integrity by E. B. White
Diego Rivera Murals This web page tells the story of Diego Rivera's ill-fated mural commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller in Rockefeller Center in New York City. In a poem entitled "I Paint What I See, "E.B. White memorialized Rivera's refusal to allow his work to be censored and the mural's destruction.
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72Walker Evans or Is It?
Digital Reproductions of Famous Photographs Walker Evans or Is It? Evans shot these works on assignment for the FSA , so they ended up in the Library of Congress as public property, where anybody can reproduce them. Digital technology hasn't introduced manipulation, it has multiplied the opportunities for mischief.
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74Bill Rauhauser Dean of Detroit Photography deedsphotos
Bill Rauhauser, dean of Detroit Photography at age 92, introduced a retrospective book of his work with a lecture and book signing at Book Beat in Oak Park December 12 in the middle of a snow storm. The fifty or so people who braved the icy roads to come to the affair found it well worth their while.
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67George Condo New York to Paris and Back
Pop surrealist painter and sculptor George Condo has been back from Paris for nearly ten years and just opened his first show since returning at The New Museum. Reports are that the show is sensational. Condo was born in New Hampshire in 1957,...
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