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Shephard tending sheep in olive grove Mentone Riviera, c. 1890s, (L) Library Image
$57.00
This is a museum quality, reproduction print on premium paper with archival/UV resistant inks. This custom made, authentic reproduction would make an elegant gift or tasteful addition to the home or office. Print no. 1206. Views of the French and Italian Riviera HISTORY OF PHOTOCHROM PRINTS The photochrom process was initially developed in Switzerland and was spelled without an "e", so the correct original spelling was actually "photochrom". Once the process was introduced in America, the "e" was added to aid pronunciation. A Photochrom is a color photo lithograph, produced from a black-and-white negative. The final prints were created using different color impressions from multiple lithographic stones. The stones used by the publisher Detroit Photographic Company were imported from Bavaria and coated with a special Syrian 'asphaltum' substance that would be chemically sensitized to light, put in contact with a photographic negative, exposed to the sun for up to several hours, then "developed" in oils of turpentine. A separate stone would be made for each color to be used. A minimum of four stones and as many as fourteen stones might be used for a given image.
(Passage: American Photochrom Archive, Image: Library of Congress)

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In this film Altman is considering the Vietnam war but from the point of view of the young men who are drafted into that butchery without even having the slightest choice at their disposal. The war, the heroic war is supposed to bring the best of man in the limelight of their personalities. It sure brings the deepest layers of all human beings in the foreground. So imagine a bunch of macho young men, black and white, plus a few older Non Commissioned Officers who are having no real private life because they spend their life killing enemies they despise. Who would marry these men who are never home and who spend their time shoulder deep in blood? Their complicity becomes complacent and we can wonder what makes them go on behaving like bad boys who only want to play hide and go seek. The draftees are not better but they are younger so they don't know about bees and flowers and birds and flying fish. And their sexuality is both in great conformity with the standard public norm and absolutely uncertain and fuzzy. Bring one real gay man in that bunch and what was only vaguely misty in the background becomes sunny bright in the foreground. The college graduate who was cool about it turns aggressive and even violent. Unluckily a black hustler is a lot better trained at self defending himself. The young college graduate will die in his own running blood. One of the older NCOs will come along and, as drunk as a barrel of gin, he will run into the situation and against the hustler who will puncture him good and well, once and for all. It is then the survivors finally understand what they are in for. The gay young man will start crying - a clich��� mind you - and the others will hide or try to ignore the mess. The only interesting element in this film is the acting of the bunch of actors who are holding the screen and the audience for nearly two hours. They act so well, so much like on an intimate theater stage, that we totally enter the game and believe it. Apart from that the male psychology is explored in details but it is not what it really is or the film has tremendously aged.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

Shephard tending sheep in olive grove Mentone Riviera, c. 1890s, FRMD M-BA
$197.00
This is a museum quality, reproduction print on premium paper with archival/UV resistant inks. The framed work is single matted (cream-ivory), under acrylic glass, with a hanging wire. It is shipped ready to hang and enjoy. This custom made, authentic reproduction would make an elegant gift or tasteful addition to the home or office. Print no. 1206. Views of the French and Italian Riviera HISTORY OF PHOTOCHROM PRINTS The photochrom process was initially developed in Switzerland and was spelled without an "e", so the correct original spelling was actually "photochrom". Once the process was introduced in America, the "e" was added to aid pronunciation. A Photochrom is a color photo lithograph, produced from a black-and-white negative. The final prints were created using different color impressions from multiple lithographic stones. The stones used by the publisher Detroit Photographic Company were imported from Bavaria and coated with a special Syrian 'asphaltum' substance that would be chemically sensitized to light, put in contact with a photographic negative, exposed to the sun for up to several hours, then "developed" in oils of turpentine. A separate stone would be made for each color to be used. A minimum of four stones and as many as fourteen stones might be used for a given image.
(Passage: American Photochrom Archive, Image: Library of Congress)

Bigger Than The Sky
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I enjoyed the contrast of corporate life with entertainment values. A theater doing "Cyrano" is a bit more of a challenge than I would be willing to face in my personal life, but if offers plenty of surprises for a guy who always seems to read like he is reading. There is such a difference between the printed word and what goes on on stage, and hardly anyone can believe than an outsider to the whole culture of theater will pick it all up by opening night. Sean Austin and Patty Duke were the only names I recognized at the beginning. By the end of the film, I was only sure of 7 characters' names for the cast list, but by going back to the beginning of the story, it was easy to fill in my number 8, a boss at work who prizes team efforts.

Our society pays people to work, but it is not very clear about what is going to happen to those who quit to take part in things that happen in their hearts. At some point, another job might come along, but the chaos that is possible for people who really don't know what to expect probably deserves to be a much larger part of our culture, because that seems to be the direction we keep heading in spite of any attempts to smooth things out.