As we sit down to our Thanksgiving dinners today, we should take a moment to remember the men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan -- the living as well as the dead.
Part of the current exhibit at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, "As Others See Us: The Contemporary Portrait," is devoted to reminding us about the human cost of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.
"They think I’m Jewish,” he says. “I’m in the Jewish book of famous people. But as far as, you know, on the professional level, I think it’s pretty common knowledge that I’m half black or whatever. I was never really fazed by the, sort of, the color barrier, you know?” Slash, the former lead guitarist of Guns N’ Roses, is talking.
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
Marcia E. Vetrocq
Art in America, June/July 2008, 168-175, 208-209
hortly before the conclusion of Shattered Glass, the 2003 film that recounts the downfall of a hot
young journalist at the New Republic who was found to have fabricated the better part of his
reputation-building features, the magazine’s anguished editor receives an assessment of how the
crisis might have been averted from his assistant. “You know what could have prevented all this,
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s photographic portraits hew to the demands of glamour while interjecting a sly, subversive edge. His sitters always look their best, despite an obviously crumpled shirt (Bill Murray) or a well-lit wrinkle (Tom Hanks), and never look stitched up or puppetlike. They are relaxed, always staring back with an unflinching gaze. Of course, the photographer’s task is helped by his raw material: A-list movie stars and other people well versed in the hidden language of the casual pose.
April 23, 2008 -- BEST wishes to Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. Having lived together since 1995, the downtown duo finally married in secret April 12 in Colorado. They celebrated in New York the other night with drinks and dessert at the East Village townhouse of Karin and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Guests included Julian and Olatz Schnabel, limbo king Mike Quashie, tai chi legend Master Ren, Hal Willner of "SNL," and Richard Belzer of "Law & Order."Beauregard Houston-Montgomery spent the night playing with Belzer's dog, Bebe, and the Reed-Anderson's dog, Lolabelle.
The Photographer As Director
How the photo industry is learning to love the moving image.
By American Photo Staff
March/April 2008
