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almost as luminously as her scoop-back beaded gown, her bare shoulders drawn up as she sings "Happy
Birthday" to JFK. This feast of photojournalism by Ray, a Life magazine staffer from 1957 to 1972, includes Charles M. Schulz brandishing a squirt gun and chasing his young son across a broad lawn; a craggy, full-lipped W.H. Auden making instant coffee in his cluttered St. Marks Place kitchen; Barry Goldwater's pugnacious mug poking out of a swimming pool; and a bikini-briefed Arnold in full Pumping-lron mode. A 1980 color shot of Warhol holding up a life-size Polaroid of himself is a trenchant portrait of the master of replicated reality.
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career had fully matured he participated in a group show held in 1998 at New York's James
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the many 35mm cameras then available, he said in practice the bulky
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carrier-based warplanes (and once urged a pilot to fly so low that it skimmed the water). Later that year he was with Indian troops on the Sikkim border with Tibet. There, he convinced the patrol he accompanied to approach closer than they felt was safe so that he could get good photographs of
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were generally reserved for studio work, the largest of all—the giant
Polaroid camera, already mentioned, was not in any sense portable. Most of his early work came from the 4-inch × 5-inch Graphlex camera that most press photographers used at the time. When asked why he chose that camera over
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In 1959 held his first solo exhibition at the Leica
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style, Ray was also adept at action photography. Soon after the dramatic escalation of the war in
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to hundreds of papers across the country. Appearing with the caption "The Great Decision," it showed a toddler holding a hand ax eyeing a turkey. Ray held his camera close to the ground making it appear that the turkey and boy were about the same size. The recognition Ray received for taking it
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fan as the foursome arrived in Los Angeles for a west coast concert tour (shown at left). It showed a tearful girl holding a clump of grass and had the caption ""Ringo! Ringo walked on this grass!" That year he also produced a photo essay on the founder of Japan's largest consumer electronics
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at an end... Utterly astounded by the treachery and admonished by their leaders to offer no resistance, the Czech people could only gather with their flags in anguished crowds and hurl threats and a pitiful defiance against the steel of the invaders."
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giving a press conference. In varying degrees they expressed doubts about the war and, as the accompanying text said, "doubted Johnson's optimistic appraisal of Vietnam." Before going to Massillon Ray made a photo essay showing the
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art these days, so why not? Go over to the Whitney Museum. But certainly not a high art. Not an art in the sense of a Renaissance art, no. I always did the best I could. I think I did some good pictures and that's it."
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Bill Ray: "The Great Decision," news photo that originally appeared on November 20, 1954, in the Lincoln Evening Journal & Nebraska State Journal and within a few days was re-published in 600 newspapers across the
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He told a reporter: "The strobe, which was drenched at this point, fired about three times and then tried to electrocute me. Then Onassis jumps on a golf cart and tries to run over me and whoever else was there."
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A letter to the editor appeared in a subsequent issue. The writer, Carol Pinette of Brunswick, Maine, said, "the picture expresses all the heartfelt joy and immense feeling we Beatle fans have for our idols."
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possessed both immediacy and lasting artistic value. At the time of his death some of his best known work did not appear in publications but was shown in gallery exhibitions. Examples include a photo of
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editor who reportedly said "I don't want these smelly bastards in my magazine."(Ironically, after they appeared in exhibitions these photos emerged as some of Ray's most popular work.)
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work very quickly to capture the image that he wanted. Another time he said he was not fond of nature or travel photography but loved to do stories on people.
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did not print Ray's photos until years later in one of its special issues after it had ceased weekly publication. A clip of the performance is available on
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Some of Ray's best known work did not appear in publications but was shown in gallery exhibitions. Examples include the photo of
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Bill Ray: A Lead Protestor Against the Vietnam War Drops Her Guard, news photo that originally appeared on April 23, 1971, in a
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