The News Review:
- PHOTOS SHOW FLDS LEADER WITH YOUTHFUL BRIDES
- Looking at 12 Years Between the Covers
- Photo exhibition on Tibet attracts Austrians
- Scrolling through youngsters’ lives via text messages
- Street and Studio: ambitious but out of focus
PHOTOS SHOW FLDS LEADER WITH YOUTHFUL BRIDES
New York Post – May 27, 2008
The shots show the jailed 52-year-old leader of a renegade Mormon sect planting deep kisses on two of his underage "wives" — one of whom is 12 years old. The smiling fresh-faced pre-teens — dressed in Little-House-on-the-Prairie-style garb typical of Jeffs' cult — are also depicted hugging him and being cradled in his arms as if he were walking them across the threshold. The photo gallery was unveiled last Friday by Texas prosecutors in the custody hearing for one of the 450 children taken in April from a compound belonging to Jeffs' group the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The shots are an apparent effort to show how deeply creepy life is among Jeffs followers for whom multiple wives and marriage to teenagers is allegedly part of their faith. According to the Smoking Gun which posted the shots on its Web site today the first of the two sets of photos shows Jeffs with a teen named Loretta on the couple's "first anniversary. " The second group of pictures shows Jeffs planting a deep open mouth kiss on a girl who is 12 years old according to the Web site. One of the FLDS's members and chief spokesman said that the Texas decision to release the shots was inflammatory because the pair never actually had sex according to the Salt Lake City Tribune.
Looking at 12 Years Between the Covers
Washington Post – May 27, 2008
" GQ ordered its readers to "Lose the goatee. " Men’s Health revealed "Why beautiful women make you stupid. " Field & Stream decreed that "Hogs are the new deer. " And Child offered this advice: "Get Happy! Why giggling is time well spent.
Photo exhibition on Tibet attracts Austrians
央è§åé – May 27, 2008
Wittmann an 80-year-old Austrian told Xinhua that she was in Tibet 20 years ago and was quite impressed by its beautiful scenery and unique culture there. She found Tibet is more beautiful and richer than before after carefully watching all the pictures. The photo exhibition with about 160 pictures is staged in the City Hall Gallery in Vienna Neustadt 50 km from Vienna capital of Austria. Many of the photos were shot by foreign photographers in 2005. The images unfolded a comprehensive view of Tibet covering natural scenery religion education customs and economic development. The exhibition will run through September.
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Scrolling through youngsters’ lives via text messages
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – May 27, 2008
“Are you serious?” says another girl. “Were you counting?”"Yeah. Her photo gallery shines with a galaxy of self-portraits. Mostly though her phone overflows with texts to and from her many best friends and one ex-best friend. Reading through her inbox and outbox of texts is like skimming the rough outline of an epic novel. The sweetest messages without a doubt are those between Brezzy and this eighth-grader who calls himself “Joshua and The Old Testimate. ” The two of them have a routine.
Street and Studio: ambitious but out of focus
Telegraph.co.uk – May 27, 2008
Although there are some rare and arresting images on view and the curators are bursting with things to say about the nature of photography the exhibition is much too big far too ambitious and without focus or structure. With more than enough material for two or even three exhibitions Street and Studio starts promisingly but quickly descends into incoherence. In the first gallery we see a photo by Charles Nègre showing chimney sweeps walking in single file along the streets of Paris in 1852. The gritty image looks so natural we assume it must be a snapshot. In fact unwieldy cameras and long exposure times meant that Nègre’s photo must have been carefully set up and posed.