Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Powell, moreover, took six successful photographs, four of the corona, and two of the sky, in order to bring out the depth of color apparent at the height of the eclipse. Mr. Hewitt, on the other hand, apparently took only one. He used the same process as that adopted by the Princeton man, the Lumiere super-sensitized plate, but adapted it to eclipse photography after careful research work...
...photographs are now with Dr. J. A. Miller, head of the Sproul Observatory at Swarthmore, where they will be exhibited at an important Astronomical conference on February 28. Powell said that his two small photographs of the corona were almost perfect and brought out the original colors of the corona flames very clearly. He added, "The eclipse was altogether unfavorable for colored photography work, since there was less color than is usually apparent. Nevertheless, the pictures bring out the different shades of red, green, and yellow quite vividly...
...Composer Deems Taylor, scored for two violins, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, piano. In the audience, reporting the evening's entertainment for The New York World, sat Critic Deems Taylor, listened while the likeness of his lovely lady took on shape and color in the bodiless air. Wrote he: "As one of Mr. Taylor's warmest admirers, we had looked forward with considerable interest to hearing his new work. . . . We rather liked one or two of his ideas, but his handling of them struck us as rather fumbling and inadequate. . . . The audience, probably...
...spoke George Winthrop, seaman-writer aboard the Leviathan to a CRIMSON reporter. Winthrop, since leaving the University of Minnesota in search of "color" has had a varied taste of ship and port life...
They saw in his pictures the work of one who, having inherited by birth a robust spirit, acquired by industry a technic, has seen no reason to believe that restraint is a healthier quality than courage, that tone is a better word than color, or that sublety is a synonym for strength. "A picture," said the cold ones, "should be judged according to the terms of its own formula. Though his canvases, vehemently composed, daringly colored, win praise from people who might damn a better picture because it was subtle, restrained, they are not the less good art. A capable...