Visions & Voices A CELEBRATION OF GENIUS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
The Indispensable Art: Survival
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R.H.CRAVENS
The old man lumbered down the stairs in a weathered bathrobe at eleven A.M., an unusually late hour for a photographer. But at age eighty-one, Paul Strand could rise at any hour he damned well pleased. What awaited him at the bottom of the stairs gave him a shock and sent him back up toward his bedroom in a very bad mood.
In 1936 Charis Wilson, at the age of twenty-two, posed for her fifty-year-old lover Edward Weston, in a series of photographs that might be grouped as the “dune nudes.The pictures were taken one morning near Oceano, California, and in a rare glimpse of a masterpiece from the subject’s point of view, she described the moments of their creation:
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BIOGRAPHY: R. H. Cravens, a contributing editor to Aperture for a quarter-century, has provided the texts of more than a dozen Aperture monographs, various articles for the magazine, and most recently co-authored, with T.K.V. Desikachar, Health Healing & Beyond: Yoga and the Living Tradition of Krishnamacharya.