Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have been depressed if they had. They saw a WPA Army leaning on its weapons-some of which, especially artillery, were not bad-stumbling through the motions of fighting, crawling clumsily around in the woods to try to knock off some determined, able fighters whom the camera never showed. The audiences saw Asiatic soldiers looking more soldierly than their European Russian comrades...
...whole film was an incomparably bad cinematic post card to the wide world. Anti-tank guns fired in batteries-perhaps for the camera. Howitzers fired in flat trajectory-perhaps for the same reason. Young men signed up for the Communist Party just before going into battle -without enthusiasm, obviously for the camera. The only naval units shown were old Tsarist models of creaky vintage. Such airplanes as appeared seemed to be copied from obsolete U. S. models. The Red Army was unconsciously shown to be a stumblebug which has plenty of weapons but will take years to learn...
...store in their basements, sandwiching an occasional show of fine photographs between their Cezannes and Rembrandts. None of them has ever rated photographs high enough to give them a full-fledged department, complete with curators and permanent collections. But the Modern Museum, which had long been flirting with camera art, last week announced that it would give photography a large, permanent place alongside its departments of painting, sculpture, architecture, industrial design...
...curator of the new department, the Modern Museum appointed its librarian, scholarly, gangling Camera Expert Beaumont Newhall...
...maiden exhibition, this week, the Modern Museum's new photography department dusted off 60 pictures representing the heavy cream of camera craft, from early sepia-colored 19th-Century primitives down to such contemporary camerartists as Alfred Stieglitz. Ansel Adams, Edward Weston. Picked to show the tremendous variety of methods and subjects used by cameramen of the past 97 years, the exhibition contained prints from hoary calotype* and wet-plate negatives, documentaries by the Civil War's camerace Matthew Brady, sentimental Victorian landscapes, modern news photographs, dadaist shadowgraphs by Hungarian-born Moholy-Nagy and U. S. Modernist...