HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS BOOK ONE: BOXING HISTORY 1930'S

NYC 1930'S

Paintings and Photographs - New York City - 1930s
	George Bellows - Dempsey and Firpo - 1924
	Berenice Abbott - NYC photographs - The El, Second and Third Avenue lines; Bowery and Doyer Street, April 1934
	George Bellows - "Stag at Sharkeys" - 1909
	(Earlier version) George Bellows - "Stag at Sharkeys"
	Berenice Abbott - Newsstand; 32nd Street and Third Avenue November 1935
	George Bellows - The Docks
	Berenice Abbott - Pike and Henry Street, March 1936
	George Bellows - "Between Rounds"
	George Bellows - Fight Club
	Reginald Marsh - Breadline
	John Sloan - McSorley's Saloon
	Reginald Marsh - Man, wife and child
	Ruth Carroll - The Elevated
	Robert Riggs - Shadow Boxer, Lithograph 1932
	Reginald Marsh - Hotel
	Maurice Kish - East River Waterfront 1932
	Ben Shahn (1898-1969), Bowery (New York City), April 1936.

AMERICAN CONSPIRACY

American Conspiracy: A Chronology in Quotes

by Alternative Reel Staff

"We are born with the schizophrenia of good and evil within us, so that each generation must persevere in self-recognition and in self-control. In ceding to the automatic reassurance of our logic, we have abandoned once more those powers of recognition and of control. Darkness seems scarcely different from light, with the web of structure and logic woven thick across both. We must therefore cut away these layers of false protection if we wish to regain control of our common sense and morality."
—John Ralston Saul, Voltaire's Bastards, 1992

"Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. John VIII:32"
—Inscription chiseled onto the CIA building in Langley, Virginia

"Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promotive of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them a deserving brother."
—George Washington, letter to King David's Lodge, No. 1, Newport, Rhode Island, August 22, 1790

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
—Thomas Jefferson, letter to Albert Gallatin, 1802

"I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being."
—Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Monroe, October 24, 1823

"I am one of those who do not believe the national debt is a national blessing...it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country."
—Andrew Jackson, letter, April 26, 1824

"In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies."
—Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1840

"Our Union is a confederation of independent States, whose policy is peace with each other and all the world. To enlarge its limits is to extend the dominions of peace over additional territories and increasing millions. The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government."
—James K. Polk, inaugural address, March 4, 1845

“Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country...useless...useless.”
—John Wilkes Booth, last words, 1865

"The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity."
—Grover Cleveland, Annual Message to Congress, December 7, 1896

"The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation."
—William McKinley, letter, December 21, 1898

"When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!"
—Theodore Roosevelt, speech, September, 1899

"I did not feel that one man should have all this power while others have none."
—Leon Czolgosz, anarchist & assassin of President William McKinley, 1901

"In the Western hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power."
—Theodore Roosevelt, Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1904

"What this country needs — what every country needs occasionally — is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
—Ambrose Bierce, letter, February 15, 1911

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
—Woodrow Wilson, 1913

"America's neutrality is ineffectual...at best...The world must be made safe for democracy."
—Woodrow Wilson, Address to Congress, April 2, 1917

"Civilization and profits go hand in hand."
—Calvin Coolidge, 1928

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1928

"The real truth of the matter is...that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson..."
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933

"He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch."
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, attributed, referring to Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua, 1934

"We have undertaken a new order of things; yet we progress to it under the framework and in the spirit and intent of the American Constitution."
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, 1935

"We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, ca. 1936

"The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians."
—Harry S. Truman, radio address, August 9, 1945

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible to exercise power from behind the scenes."
—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1952

"[I am] considerably concerned when I see the extent to which we are developing a one-party press in a two-party country."
—Adlai Stevenson, 1952

"We must develop effective espionage and counter-espionage services, and must learn to subvert, sabotage, and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may be necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand, and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy."
—Doolittle Report to President Eisenhower, 1954

"These men should be equipped with weapons and should march slightly behind the innocent and gullible participants."
—Instructions for assassins in a CIA guerilla warfare handbook, ca. 1954

"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal — that you can gather votes like box tops — is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
—Adlai Stevenson, speech at Democratic National Convention, 1956

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961

"Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place."
—John F. Kennedy, June 1961

"I didn't shoot anybody, no sir...I'm just a patsy."
—Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963

"...we might have ridden into an ambush."
—JFK aide David Powers, 1964

"We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation."
—Lyndon Johnson, news conference, July 28, 1965

"The greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own government."
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1967

"I now fully realize that only the powers of the Presidency will reveal the secrets of my brother’s death."
—Robert Kennedy, June 3, 1968, two days before he was assassinated

"If people demonstrate in a manner to interfere with others, they should be rounded up and put in a concentration camp."
—Richard G. Kleindienst, Attorney-General under Richard Nixon, ca. 1970

"When you get in these people when you...get these people in, say: 'Look, the problem is that this will open the whole, the whole Bay of Pigs thing, and the President just feels that ah, without going into the details...don't, don't lie to them to the extent to say there is no involvement, but just say this is sort of a comedy of errors, bizarre, without getting into it, 'the President believes that it is going to open the whole Bay of Pigs thing up again.' And, ah because these people are plugging for, for keeps and that they should call the FBI in and say that we wish for the country, don't go any further into this case, period!"
—Richard Nixon, tape, June 23, 1972

"If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he should resign."
—Bill Clinton, 1974

"Always give your best, never get discouraged, never by petty; always remember, others may hate you. Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
—Richard Nixon, farewell address, 1974

"The more I have learned, the more concerned I have become that the government was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy."
—Victor Marchetti, former Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA, quoted in True magazine, April 1975

"We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon."
—Jimmy Carter, 1976

"We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people."
—Jimmy Carter, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1977

"An organization must be feared to be effective. It doesn’t mean you do fearful things, but it does mean you must be respected...even agents on the CIA payroll must fear you and feel that you’re omnipresent and that therefore they better not betray you, or you’ll know..."
—James Angleton, CIA Chief of Counterintelligence, July 1977

"The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts."
—Eugene J. McCarthy, 1978

"The Shah (of Iran) was — despite the travesties of retroactive myth — a dedicated reformer."
—Henry Kissinger, 1979

"There is solid evidence...that Hoffa, Marcello, and Trafficante — three of the most important targets for criminal prosecution by the Kennedy Administration — had discussions with their subordinates about murdering President Kennedy. Associates of Hoffa, Trafficante, and Marcello were in direct contact with Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed the ‘lone assassin’ of the President. Although members of the Warren Commission, which investigated President Kennedy’s assassination, has knowledge of much of this information at the time of their inquiry, they chose not to follow it up."
—House Assassination Committee Report, 1979

"We love your adherence to democratic principle, and to the democratic processes."
—George H.W. Bush, toasting President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, 1981

"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
—Gen. William C. Westmoreland, 1982

"The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression — to preserve freedom and peace."
—Ronald Reagan, 1983

"They are our brothers, these freedom fighters...They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong."
—Ronald Reagan, on the Nicaraguan Contras, 1985

"I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about."
—Elliott Abrams, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, at Iran-Contra Hearings, 1987

"I will never apologize for the United States of America! I don't care what the facts are!"
—George H.W. Bush, 1988

"Facts are stupid things."
—Ronald Reagan, 1988

"I am the future."
—Dan Quayle, 1988

"The world can therefore seize the opportunity to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind."
—George H.W. Bush, 1990

"That's the left wing of the CIA debating the right wing of the CIA."
—Timothy Leary, discussing CNN's "Crossfire," ca. 1992

"Based on the evidence that I've been shown, I would think that it would be very difficult for something of that magnitude to occur on his [LBJ's] watch and he not be privy to it."
—Dexter Scott King, on the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination, 1997

"That depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."
—Bill Clinton, 1998

"There ought to be limits to freedom."
—George W. Bush, news conference, May 21, 1999

"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor."
—"Rebuilding America's Defenses," Report from the Project for the New American Century, 2000

"This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while."
—George W. Bush, September 16, 2001

“I think Skull and Bones has had slightly more success than the mafia in the sense that the leaders of the five families are all doing 100 years in jail, and the leaders of the Skull and Bones families are doing four and eight years in the White House.”
—Ron Rosenbaum, columnist for the New York Observer, quoted in CBS News' report on Skull & Bones, June 13, 2004

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror."
—George Bush, CBS News interview, September 6, 2006

Friday, November 7, 2008

BOXING HISTORY 1930'S

Boxing History - 1930's

The 1930's

1930

Jan 16 - Jack (Kid) Berg defeats Tony Canzoneri, 10 rounds, New York.

June 12 - Max Schmeling wins on fouls over Jack Sharkey, four rounds, New York, to win vacant heavyweight championship.

Aug 7 - Jack (Kid) Berg defeats Kid Chocolate, 10 rounds, New York, the loss is the first for Chocolate as an amateur or professional.

Aug 25 - Max Baer KOs Frankie Campbell, five rounds, San Francisco. Campbell dies from head injuries the next morning.

Nov 14 - Tony Canzoneri KOs Al Singer, one round, New York, to win lightweight title

1931

Feb 6 - Tommy Loughran gives Max Baer a boxing lesson over ten rounds to get a decision, New York

April 24 - Tony Conzoneri KOs Jack (Kid) Berg, three rounds, Chicago to retain lightweight title and win junior welterweight title.

July 3 - Max Schmeling stops Young Stribling, 15 rounds, Cleveland, to retain heavyweight title. It will be the only KO loss suffered by Stribling in his 286-fight career.

July 4 - Paulino Uzudun defeats Max Baer, 20 rounds, Reno, the bout is promoted and refereed by Jack Dempsey.

July 15 - Kid Chocolate KOs Benny Bass, seven rounds, Philadelphia, to win junior lightweight title.

Sept 10 - Tony Canzoneri defeats Jack (Kid) Berg, 15 rounds, New York to retain lightweight and junior welterweight titles.

Sept 17 - Marvin Hart, former heavyweight champion dies at age 55 in Fern Creek, KY.

Oct 12 - Jack Sharkey defeats Primo Carnera, 15 rounds, Brooklyn.

Nov 20 - Tony Canzoneri defeats Kid Chocolate, 15 rounds, New York to retain lightweight and junior welterweight titles.

1932

March 24 - Billy Petrolle stops Battling Battalino, 12 rounds, New York. It will be the only KO loss of Battalino's career.

May 26 - Mickey Walker defeats Paulino Uzcudun, 10 rounds, New York.

June 21 - Jack Sharkey defeats Max Schmeling on a spilt 15 round decision, Long Island, to win the heavyweight title. Afterwards, Joe Jacobs, Schmeling's manager announces for posterity "We Wuz Robbed!"

July 4 - Max Baer defeats King Levinsky, 20 rounds, Reno, the bout is the last scheduled 20 round bout to go the distance.

Sept 19 - Panama Al Brown KOs Emile (Spider) Pladner, one round, Toronto, to retain bantamweight title.

Sept 26 - Max Schmeling stops a game Mickey Walker, eight rounds, Long Island.

Oct 7 - Jimmy McLarnin ends the comeback of ex-lightweight champion Benny Leonard, stopping Leonard in sixth round, New York.

1933

Feb 10 - Primo Carnera stops Ernie Schaaf, 13 rounds, new York. Schaaf dies of injuries on Feb 13, doctors determine he had never fully recovered from the beating suffered in a bout with Max Baer.

May 21 - Tony Canzoneri defeats Battling Shaw, 10 rounds, New Orleans to regain jr. welter title.

May 29 - Jimmy McLarnin KOs Yong Corbett III, one round, Los Angeles, to win welter title.

June 8 - Max Baer in his finest performance of his career, wears down 7-5 favorite Max Schmeling and stops him in ten rounds, new York.

June 23 - Barney Ross defeats Tony Canzoneri, 10 rounds, Chicago to win lightweight and junior welterweight titles.

June 29 - Primo Carnera KOs Jack Sharkey, six rounds, Long island, to win heavyweight title. Questions persist to this day if Sharkey took a dive.

Oct 2 - Heavyweight contender Young Stribling, just 29 but a veteran of 286 bouts dies of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident, Macon, GA.

Nov 3 - Maxie Rosenbloom defeats Mickey Walker, 15 rounds, New York, to retain light heavy title.

Nov 24 - Tony Canzoneri - KOs Kid Chocolate, two rounds, New York. The first KO loss in 97 fights for Chocolate.

1934

Feb 7 - Barney Ross defeats Polo Nebo, 12 rounds, New Orleans, to retain junior welterweight title.

Feb 17 - Kid Chocolate gives up his New York version of the featherweight title.

March 1 - Primo Carnera weighing 270 pounds, defeats ex-light heavyweight champion Tommy Loughran, 184 pounds., Miami, to retain heavyweight title. Carnera's 86 pound weight advantage is still the record for a heavyweight title fight.

May 29 - Barney Ross defeats Jimmy McLarnin on a 15 round split decision, Long Island to win welterweight title.

June 14 - Max Baer floors Primo Carnera 11 times and stops him in 11 rounds, Long Island to win heavyweight title.

June 14 - James J. Braddock gets off the deck in round two to KO highly regarded Corn Griffin, three rounds, Long Island.

July 4 - Joe Louis makes his pro debut by KOing Jack Kracken, one round, Chicago.

Nov 16 - James J. Braddock defeats John Henry Louis, 10 rounds, New York.

1935

March 10 - Max Schmeling avenges a previous defeat to Steve Hamas by stopping him in nine rounds, Hamburg, Hamas never fights again.

March 22 - James J. Braddock continues his improbable comeback, gives top rated heavyweight contender Art Lasky a boxing lesson over 15 rounds, New York.

June 13 - James J. Braddock, a 10-1 underdog who had been on public relief rolls the year before, upsets Max Baer over 15 rounds, to win heavyweight title, New York.

June 25 - In his New York debut, Joe Louis pounds Primo Carnera into a bloody mess, stopping him in six rounds.

Sept 13 - Down twice in the first round, Barney Ross comes back to win a ten round decision over Ceferino Garcia, 10 rounds, San Francisco.

Sept 24 - Joe Louis floors Max Baer three times, then KOs him in four rounds, New York. The first KO loss of Baer's career.

Dec 14 - Joe Louis, landing what he called " the hardest punch I ever threw" floors iron-chinned Paulino Uzcudun with a right in the fourth round, New York. The punch drives Uzcudun's teeth through his mouthpiece and upper lip, bout is stopped moments later.

1936

May 8 - after being stunned by the overhanging microphone during the referee's instructions and taking a beating in the first round, Tony Canzoneri comes back to floor Jimmy McLarnin in the second en route to a 10 round decision, New York.

June 19 - Max Schmeling, an 8-1 underdog, shocks the boxing world by flooring Joe Louis in the fourth round, then hurting over and over with right hands and then stopping him in the 12th, New York.

June 29 - In one of boxing's greatest comebacks, Tony Marino down in the first and baldy beaten, goes for broke and KOs Baltazar Sangchili, 14 rounds, New York, to win bantamweight title.

Aug 4 - Henry Armstrong defeats Baby Arzimendi, 10 rounds, Los Angeles, gets Cali and Mexico recognition as featherweight champion.

Aug 18 - Joe Louis KOs Jack Sharkey, three rounds, New York.

Sept 3 - Lou Ambers defeats Tony Canzoneri, 15 rounds, to win lightweight title.

Oct 27 - Henry Armstrong defeats Mike Bellarose, 10 rounds, Los Angeles, to add New York recognition as featherweight champion.

Nov 20 - Jimmy McLarnin defeats lightweight champion Lou Ambers, ten rounds, New York, non-title fight. Shortly afterwards, McLarnin, just 29, retires.

Nov 26 - Former middleweight champion Billy Papke, 52, shoots and kills his estranged wife before taking his own life , Newport, California.

Dec 14 - Joe Louis KOs Eddie Simms, one round, Cleveland. Louis floors Simms in the opening seconds, when Simms tells referee "Take me up to the roof, I need to get some air", the bout is stopped after 14 seconds.

1937

Jan 19 - Benny Lynch defeats Small Montana, 15 rounds, Glasgow to unify flyweight title for the first time since 1925.

May 7 - Lou Ambers defeats Tony Canzoneri, 15 rounds, new York, to retain lightweight title.

June 22 - Joe Louis gets off the canvas to KO James J. Braddock, eight rounds, Chicago, to win the heavyweight championship. Afterwards, Louis tell reporters "I wont feel like I'm the champ until I whip Schmeling"

Oct 29 - Henry Armstrong KOs Petey Sarron to claim the featherweight championship, six rounds, New York.

Dec 12 - Henry Armstrong KOs Johnny Jones, two rounds, New Orleans. The win concludes an incredible 27-0 run with 26 KOs for the year.

1938

Jan 21 - James J. Braddock ends his career by taking a ten round split decision from Tommy Farr, New York.

March 11 - Max Bare floors Tommy Farr for the first time in his career in sixth round, then overcomes a closed eye to defeat Farr in 15 rounds, New York.

May 31 - Featherweight champion Henry Armstrong defeats Barney Ross to win the welterweight championship, 15 rounds, Long Island. Armstrong holds back in the final rounds so that Ross, who had never been stopped, can finish on his feet.

June 22 - In the sporting event with the most important international impact of the century, Joe Louis defends his heavyweight belt against ex-champion and the man that beat him, Max Schmeling. Soon after the opening bell, Louis hurts Schmeling unintentionally in the lower back, as Schmeling tries to twist away from a Louis attack, Louis fractures two of Schmeling's vertebrae with the punch. Louis then floors Schmeling three times and the referee stops the bout at 2:04 of the first round to "keep Schmeling from being killed". Back in the dressing room, Louis says "Now you can call me champ"

Aug 17 - Henry Armstrong accomplishes one of the most incredible feats in boxing history. He floors Lou Ambers twice, then survives a late rally and a badly cut mouth to gain a 15 round split decision. The win gives Armstrong, already the featherweight and welterweight champion, three world titles simultaneously as he snags the lightweight title.

1939

Feb 10 - Billy Conn defeats Fred Apostoli, 15 rounds, New York

April 17 - Joe Louis KOs Kack Roper, one round, Los Angeles, to retain heavyweight title. It is Louis' third consecutive first round KO in a heavyweight title defense, still a record and the last heavyweight title fight scheduled for ten rounds.

June 28 - Joe Louis stunned in the first and dropped briefly in the third by Tony Galento, KOs Galento in the fourth round, Bronx, to retain his heavyweight title.

Aug 21 - Lou Ambers defeats Henry Armstrong, 15 rounds, Bronx, to regain the lightweight title. Armstrong is penalized for low blows in 5 rounds.

Dec 11 - Henry Armstrong KOs Jimmy Garrison, seven rounds, Cleveland, to retain the welterweight title. Armstrong's 11 successful title defenses in 139 remains the record for the most in any weight class during one year.

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WITHOUT SANCTUARY LYNCHINGS IN AMERICA

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SMALL TOWN AMERICA

Small Town America

All of the paintings today are by the photorealist painter Ralph Goings, who seemed fascinated by small-town American life. I quite like photorealist paintings. Call me a philistine if you will but I actually prefer art to look at least vaguely like whatever its supposed to represent. You can keep your installation art and statuettes of christ floating in pee ( a la Andres Serrano). Give me a painting of a donut that looks edible, preferably rendered in bright, cheerful colors, and I'm happy.

Photorealism , as the name suggests, is based upon making a painting from a photograph. It evolved in the 1960s and '70s from the pop art movement and was a reaction against abstract expressionism. The word Photorealism was originally coined by Louis K. Meisel in 1968. More recently some artists have created a development of this style that they call 'hyperrealism'. The distinction between the two 'realisms' isn't always perfectly obvious but I suppose you could say that generally, where the photorealists try to represent reality accurately, the hyperrealists are likely to be more interpretive in order to create a heightened illusion of reality. Or sump'n ..:)

If you're interested, you can read more about the photorealist art movement Here .. ellie