Word: darkroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stanley Wisniewski, 24, an X-ray technician at Chicago's Lutheran Deaconess Hospital, slumped to the darkroom floor with a heart attack. Stimulants and artificial respiration failed: his heart had stopped. A passing surgeon whipped out a pocket knife, sliced open Wisniewski's chest (while he still lay on the floor) and massaged the heart with his bare hand. After 2¼ hours, and more conventional treatment as equipment was rounded up, Wisniewski's heart resumed its beat. This week he was doing well...
Business candidates will learn selling fundamentals and the operation of the newspaper, which grosses $80,000 each year. These interested in photography will get a complete grounding in darkroom and engraving procedure, as well as actual picture-taking, by the skilled photographic staff, rated behind Life Magazine, among others...
...built his daughter a wood-paneled game room, installed a new furnace in his home, made Venetian blinds for all the windows, laid a concrete drive, screened in the front porch, made a suite of bedroom furniture and slipcovers for chairs, built a snowplow, and rigged a darkroom for his other hobby, photography. Says Lowry, in the independent voice of all his breed: "I don't believe I'd know a plumber, electrician or carpenter if I saw one. I haven't hired one for years...
...that Mr. Jackson was not fortunate enough to clamber up the iced boulders with "primitive film." Somebody in his party had to haul glass plates up the mountain so that when the time came to make an exposure, all he had to do was to kneel in his tiny darkroom tent, sensitize a glass plate, place it in a holder and rush it to his bulky camera before it had a chance to dry. Then he had to develop it immediately and fix it and wash it right on the spot. This was the same laborious process used by Mathew...
...study sociology, started to earn his way as a part-time photographer. When Hitler came to power, Capa skied across the border into Austria, then went to Paris, where he hit upon a unique scheme to sell his pictures. He invented a famed photographer-himself. He posed as darkroom assistant for "a rich, talented American photographer named Robert Capa." French newspapers and magazines were first impressed with the nonexistent Capa's buildup. Then they were impressed with the pictures Andrè Friedmann sold them. He did so well selling them that he changed his name to Capa, married Gerda...