One Man's Eye: Alan Siegel
Design consultant Alan Siegel has amassed a collection of photographs that is large and good enough to require a curator, Miles Barth. Together, owner and curator have mounted an exhibition, to which this 14-by-12-inch album is the visual complement. It contains some famous images, such as Nat Fein's Pulitzer Prize-winningBabeRuth's Farewell, but mostly others that ought to be better known, such as the late (1970) Man Ray "Rayograph" of a feather with "ABC" silk-screened in color over it. The pictures are presented in subject or stylistic categories, such as "Design & Abstraction," "Landscapes," and "Flowers." Siegel introduces the collection and the categorical sections rather too personally; he often sounds overly full of himself. So skim his writing, skip the strange preface by a museum curator (he and Siegel apparently disdained any editing), and settle into some magnificent photos printed at pretty much optimal size.Ray OlsonCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved