Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alcatraz Penitentiary on a grim, grey rock in San Francisco Bay was considered escape proof till December 1937. Then two convicts got down to the water, vanished into what may or may not have been their grave in the treacherous currents of the bay. Then authority were startled. They were more startled last week...
...ancient Mediterranean city of Tarragona, famed in Roman days for its temples and wines and fortress, changed masters again last week. This time the city fell, with scarcely a shot fired, before the attacking legions of Spanish Rebel Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Actually a Roman ruler supplied guns, ammunition, warplanes and some of the warriors with which Tarragona again was taken, for Tarragona's capture was as much Dictator Benito Mussolini's triumph as Generalissimo Franco...
...trained operator demonstrated a complicated electronic device called Voder (short for "voice operation demonstrator"). Voder creates a variety of sounds resembling human speech closely enough to be easily intelligible. It is intended to flabbergast, enlighten and amuse visitors to this year's world's fairs in San Francisco and New York City...
...Weston went west. Like most artists of his generation, Evans got as far east as Paris. He returned to photograph life on the eastern seaboard with solitary detachment, a refined eye and a sharp sense of history. Meanwhile, Weston was in business as a portrait photographer in Glendale, San Francisco and finally in Carmel, California. Among professionals his off-hour studies of dunes, shells and vegetables became noted for their miraculous clarity. In 1936 he won the first Guggenheim fellowship ever given a photographer...
Freed by his fellowship, leathery Edward Weston has covered 25,000 miles of California and New Mexico on sorties lasting two and three weeks from bases in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sick of human faces, he found his subjects in the surfaces of mountains and deserts. As Walker Evans' work fixes moments of a changing society, Weston's mirrors static Nature: the bleached bowl of Death Valley, with two black wheel tracks winding into it; elephant-textured granite in the Mojave Desert...