Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most 20th-century artists feel the presence of a little black rival in their studios. A round glass eye seems to stare fixedly over their shoulders and to imply, with an occasional clicking wink, that the camera can see and record better than they...
...young Philadelphia-born artist named Charles Sheeler took a trip to Paris, gazed at the Cubist experiments of Picasso and Braque, and came home an abstractionist. For a living he became a photographer, but his Art, which he spelled with a capital A, was safely outside the world his camera saw. Only two things bothered him: most people preferred the photographs...
Soon Sheeler gave up trying to lead a double life between his canvases and his negatives, decided to see if he could paint reality even more clearly and cleanly than his camera did. It worked. Except for rather arbitrary color schemes, his fanatically realistic paintings looked just like photographs-retouched...
Bricks & Tricks. Art French, 49 (called Happy because he never looks it), had been shooting oversized hollyhocks, chasing fires and persuading divorcees to pull up their skirts for the camera for 23 years. He never did get much schooling, and was famed for malaprops: he always said "polo bears" and "Remember Pearl Island" and "neon stockings...
...kids' faces and saw how happy they were as they told Santa Claus what they wanted for Christmas. I thought I'd just like to sit somewhere and take pictures of those faces." The following Christmas he took a leave of absence from the PI, rigged his camera inside a box so that he could snap the children unseen, sold candid shots of moppets on Santa's knee, at $1 a print. Last year he had to hire 15 helpers to handle the business, and the line-up of parents and children blocked traffic...