Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accustomed as they are to look anywhere in the world but Russia to see luxury in full bloom, most Americans will view the pictures of the new Moscow subway as evidence that, once in a while at least, the camera does lie. As if paying back a jeering capitalist world in its own coin, Mr. Stalin has constructed a subway system in his capital city, which, if the pictures are to be believed, is a cross between the Widener reading-room and the Radio City Music Hall. Although poor capitalistic New Yorkers and Bostonians ride to work in dismal, cement...
Successful attempts to photograph the eye in color were made in 1927-28 by Dr. Lawrence Redway of New York. The machine in use at the present time was built by Carl Zeiss in Germany on Dr. Redway's design. A special camera that takes a 4 1/2s6cm. Alga color plate stands on a vertical arm. It is franked by two light sources and in front of it is a chin rest for the subject. The lens is an F: 4.5. The two main modifications that have been made from the original plans are the substitution of incandescent light...
...years after the death of Daguerre, that photography is an art. For the first time in the Academy's history it sponsored an exhibition of photographic prints at its musty Manhattan headquarters. It called the show "the most notable demonstration of artistic skill by means of the camera which has been displayed in this country...
...protest against exactly that kind of '"emotional" photography 30 years ago-pictures that attempted to look as much like oil paintings as possible with trick lighting, diffused lenses and elaborate retouching-that famed Photographer Alfred Stieglitz started his little magazine Camera Works, and opened his first gallery in Manhattan...
RUNNING the gamut of emotions, from sleepiness to tigerishness, the varied facial expressions of battling athletes as they face their competitors are recorded by the lightning swiftness of the action camera. Caught unawares, these athletes had no time to assume the accepted ferocious expressions that are seen in the ordinary still photographs of collegiate athletes...