Monat: Oktober 2009
Hockney
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Drawings by David Hockney
Mr. Hockney, renowned for his portraits, has been working with
Photoshop and a Wacom tablet.
This painting, “Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima,†and the three below are Inkjet-printed computer drawings on paper, all from 2008.
Photoshop and a Wacom tablet.
This painting, “Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima,†and the three below are Inkjet-printed computer drawings on paper, all from 2008.
Life Sentences and Death
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October 17, 2009 , 1:14 pm
On Assignment: Life Sentences
By Niko Koppel
In the Rooms series for The Times, Fred R. Conrad has produced elegant images and sweeping 360-degree panoramas.
More recently, he faced the challenge of photographing the hospital wing of the Coxsackie Correctional Facility, one of New Yorks maximum-security prisons. The article it illustrates, Fellow Inmates Ease the Pain of Dying in Jail, and Find a Kinship focuses on prison hospices and on the incarcerated volunteers who serve dying patients.
The experience is being with them during their final days — it changes you, Mr. Conrad said. I wanted to see the effect on men who had done awful things in the past. Was there a chance of redemption?
Vertigo
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October 12, 2009 , 6:32 pm
Critics Picks Video: ‚Vertigo‘
This week, A. O. Scott looks at Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcocks 1958 classic with James Stewart and Kim Novak. Mr. Scott calls it one of the greatest movies ever made.