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Well, by the time this photo was taken, most of these things were probably in a landfill in northern Virginia; that's where much--though not quite all--of the original White House interior went around midcentury.
Had those 60 years constituted his entire career, we could relegate him to a historical back shelf along with so many other humanistic pillars of midcentury photography, stalwarts of Life and The Family of Man whose work today primarily inspires a nagging sense of duty.
Yesterday's NYT Magazine , another of those millennial issues, contained an annotated photo cum pensee cum fashion spread wherein actor William H. Macy "revisit[s] major milestones from midcentury America."
Two weeks ago, art historian Simon Schama predicted in The New Yorker that Pam Gems' play about midcentury British painter Stanley Spencer, his wife, and his lover would be received--unfairly, claimed Schama--as "yet another formulaic contribution to the flourishing genre of painter-as-prick."
He also astutely recognized it as a midcentury symptom of a "fascinating and somewhat mysterious phenomenon, this one of the parents of America being this nervous about doing right by their children."
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