Vicki Goldberg Dies at 88; Saw Photography Through a Literary Lens

An influential photography critic, she wrote essays, newspaper columns and books, including a notable biography of the photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White.

維姬‧戈德堡逝世，享年88歲；以文學視角看待攝影

作為一位頗具影響力的攝影評論家，她撰寫了大量散文、報紙專欄和書籍，其中包括攝影記者瑪格麗特·伯克-懷特的著名傳記。

Ms. Goldberg holding a drink and smiling while posing with a man in a suit. — Ms. Goldberg in 2016 with Christopher Phillips, a curator at the International Center of Photography.Credit...Clint Spaulding/Patrick McMullan, via Getty Images

Ms. Goldberg pored over the trove for an article in New York Magazine, and soon embarked on her Bourke-White biography.
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In compiling her biography, Ms. Goldberg pored over a trove of 8,000 photographs and other artifacts that were found in Margaret Bourke-White’s house after her death.Credit...Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co

(The book inspired a television movie, “Double Exposure: The Story of Margaret Bourke-White,” which aired in 1989, starring Farrah Fawcett.)

A bright yellow poster advertising the TV movie based on Ms. Goldberg's biography, with a photo of Farah Fawcett holding a camera. — Ms. Goldberg’s biography inspired a television movie, “Double Exposure: The Story of Margaret Bourke-White” (1989), starring Farrah Fawcett.Credit...Turner Home Entertainment

The octogenarian filmmaker Agnès Varda

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: A scene from "The Beaches of Agnès"

Varda has been a pioneer in the world of cinema since the 1950s. Today at the age of 81, she remains highly active.

Agnès Varda met her husband-to-be and fellow film-maker, the late Jacques Demy back in the 50s. Her autobiographical ‘Les Plages d’Agnès’ – released in English as ‘The Beaches of Agnes’ – won a César (the French equivalent of the Oscars) for best documentary earlier this year, and more recently, she has been experimenting with installations involving film, in exhibits at galleries in Lyons and Oporto.

Varda, Agnès (änyĕs' värdä') 1928-, French filmmaker, b. Brussels. She studied at the Sorbonne, École du Louvre, and a Paris photography school and began working as a theatrical photographer (1951-61) and photojournalist. Varda's first film, La Pointe Courte (1954), has been called the first work of France's cinematic new wave. Fiercely independent, she established a reputation for originality and feminist concerns in Cleo from 5 to 7 (1961), the "real-time" story of a pop star awaiting a crucial medical diagnosis. Since then, she has directed some 30 films (and written many of them), which often deal with themes of isolation and loneliness. Her best-known features include Happiness, (1965) The Creatures (1966), One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977), Vagabond (1985), and Jane B. by Agnes V. (1987). Varda has also made documentaries, e.g., Black Panthers (1968), and two tributes (1991 and 1995) to her late husband, the director Jacques Demy.