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Mar. 19, 1990: From The Publisher
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Mar. 19, 1990 The Right To Die
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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<p> The extraordinary pictures illustrating this week's cover
story are the work of a remarkable photographer, Ruven
Afanador, 31. What Colombian-born Afanador describes as
"luminously toned" portraits are not the usual stuff of our
full-color magazine. "I had admired his portfolio and had been
looking for several months for the right assignment for him,"
says MaryAnne Golon, TIME's assistant picture editor for
special projects. "I knew immediately that this was the one.
Because Ruven is as calm and tasteful as his pictures, he was
able to work with the families of our subjects without being
intrusive."
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<p> To meet his deadline, Afanador had to schedule eight
photographic sessions from California to Maryland in seven
days. Nonetheless, he arranged to talk quietly with the
families of each subject, usually the night before he began
photographing. "I wanted them to understand," says Afanador,
"that I intended to portray a family and the love it felt, not
a medical problem." Returning to New York City after several
nights with very little sleep, he still was not finished. He
headed straight to his darkroom, where he used old photographic
paper and a special chemical process to provide the pictures'
yellowish cast.
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<p> Afanador began his project believing that people who are
comatose remained completely motionless. "But while I was doing
the picture that is now on the cover," he says, "Christine
Busalacchi opened her eyes and seemed to smile at me. It had
a dramatic effect on me, but it didn't change my attitude about
allowing these patients to die."
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<p> This week we begin a new column by Michael Kramer in the
Nation section. Titled "The Political Interest," it will focus
chiefly on domestic affairs in the U.S., while also following
U.S. interests overseas. "A measure of America's continuing
might is the fact that most domestic issues resonate abroad,"
says Kramer, who joined TIME in November 1988 as a special
correspondent. "But any way you cut it, high policy has its
roots in good old-fashioned hardball politics."
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<p>-- Louis A. Weil III
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