Word: contax
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...time was Christmas Day minus two, 1944; the place, five miles from Bastogne. The swart, short-legged photographer got out of his jeep, climbed an embankment and fired away with his long-lens Contax at some G.I.s advancing across a snow-covered field. Suddenly one yelled and leveled a Tommy...
...Actually Is." At the front he wisely eliminated most of the equipment necessary for time-consuming photographic work. He simply shot fast, wide and sometimes almost blindly, with a battery of miniature hand cameras (Contax and Rolleiflex). Says he: "I have no right to deceive the people back home; they're entitled to look at the thing as it actually is and that's what I photograph...
...Manhattan one day last week a 21-year-old cameraman named George Smooke focused his Contax at an apartment-house window, snapped a blurry but reproducible photograph of a shirtless man, a kimono-clad woman. The man was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, disbarred policy-racket lawyer, now under indictment along with Tammany-Leader James J. ("Jimmy") Hines, and incarcerated for five months in the Tombs. The woman was Dixie's doxie, a red-haired showgirl named Hope Dare, who was in hiding with him when he was arrested in Philadelphia late last winter...
...York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic. He led the Cincinnati Symphony through nine distinguished years, heads the Orchestra and Opera Departments of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. He is considered an expert on Wagner, likes the moderns as well as Bach, snaps crack photographs on his Contax...
...Houston, Tex. month ago Scripps-HowarcTs up & coming Press bought its photographer, Francis ("Nig") Miller, a Zeiss Contax camera, turned him loose on the city to get "candid" shots. Bold little Cameraman Miller went about snapping the usual pictures of backstage doings and unwary citizens. His best layout was ''Houston at Lunch Time," displaying Houstonians munching salad, picking their teeth...