Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Until then, most readers had to content themselves with engravings copied from photographs. Meanwhile, the bulky camera gear of the 19th century hardly lent itself to instant coverage. In the cumbersome wet-plate process, which became the norm in the mid-1850s, pictures were formed on a sheet of glass that had to be coated with an emulsion just before the exposure, then developed at once. Action shots were ruled out by the lengthy exposure times, several seconds or more. And while history might be made at night, photographs almost never were. Flash powder did not come into use until...
Though cameras were always pulled out for calamities -- the Johnstown flood, the San Francisco earthquake -- the subtler processes of the century left their mark on the glass plates too. The growth of industry, the very geometry of the industrial landscape were news. The diagonals of an iron truss or the plunging lines of a new bridge told of the spreading dominion of industry and technology in a way that words never could. Photography came along just in time to record the great expansion of empire by the colonial powers as they stretched toward the Pacific. When the U.S. moved westward...
...brief time of peace, photojournalism waged war against privacy. A decisive weapon appeared in 1924: the Ermanox, a miniature glass-plate camera with a wide-aperture lens. The camera could operate in dim light and without great intrusion. Erich Salomon, a German with a talent for discretion, stalked diplomatic salons and private railway cars with his tripod-held model. In the U.S., a New York Daily News photographer, Tom Howard, strapped a miniature camera to his ankle and violated the mystery of Ruth Snyder's electrocution...
...each night, more than 6,000 residents have settled into the thicket of 19 new apartment buildings, creating a flourishing neighborhood. Upwards of 40 restaurants and glossy shops have followed. This week ferry service from Hoboken, N.J., begins, after a 22-year hiatus, anchored to a handsome glass terminal just north of the World Financial Center...
...definitely changes what a family is like," says Karen Hastings, who spent her high school years at North House and now designs glass art in Santa Fe, N.M. "I think I felt sometimes that there wasn't as much time spent as a family...