Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also annoyed at the British censorship last week, chiefly for not matching the Nazis in supplying good war photos, was the British weekly magazine Picture Post. In the Nov. 4 issue the magazine shows a blacked-out countryside with a sign hung in the foreground: This is a private war. The War Office, the Admiralty, the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Information are engaged in a war with the Nazis. They are on no account to be disturbed. Nothing is to be photographed. No one is to come near...
...panel, entitled The Homestead and the Building of the Barbed Wire Fences, is a scene of Territorial industry. In front of a sod house a woman and child pare potatoes; near by, on a wagon, the farmer with a sledge hammer drives a fence post in the ground. The foreground is shielded by rain clouds, but the sun strikes through beyond, lighting up a distant pasture. Observed Painter Curry: "Building the barbed wire fences closed forever the open range, and behind these fences developed a different economic and social order." Both panels are nine by 20 feet, painted...
Weston's passionately perfected technique for getting sharp definition in distant as well as foreground objects once inspired the "F.64" Group-a club of California photographers sworn to experiment with that tiniest aperture of the diaphragm. For exacting selfdiscipline, Weston is still unique. He never takes duplicate negatives, never "crops" or trims a print to improve his composition...
Hitler's Völkischer Beobachter: "The Germanophobe Ickes belongs to that group in the Washington Cabinet that . . . seeks to put Roosevelt in the foreground of their dark machinations." Essen National Zeitung: "Ickes . . . official co-sinner of the drug king [Coster-Musica], whose vest is by no means clean!" Dr. Goebbels' Der Angriff (under a photograph of Secretary Ickes slumped, ungainly, in a chair): "THIS IS HERR ICKES. Instead of busying himself with the gigantic corruption scandal at home, which is his duty as Minister of the Interior,† Herr Ickes makes incendiary speeches against Germany...
...centre foreground sits Harpo staring, sadly strumming on his harp. His hair is golden fuzz, interwoven with fuchsia flowers and gay green leaves. He is not surprised by the company of three attentive giraffes-their backs on fire. In the distance are eight more giraffes, also burning, trying to get away from their own heat by running...