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Writing the story of the land and people was enough. He set up his huge Graflex in the middle of Depot Street one evening to photograph the grain elevator gloriously in flames. He parked his Ford in a cut made by a snowplow after one of the blizzards of 1936. The picture showed the snowbanks piled around the car. Every farmer with a crazy scheme to kill the swarms of grasshoppers that came with the drought got his ear. On a scorching day he watched one farmer race around his pasture with a scoop fixed on the front...
Stanley Kubrick, who looks (according to one Hollywood observer) like "an undernourished Marlon Brando," is the son of a Bronx physician. At 13 he began "fooling around" with his father's Graflex. At 16 he took some pictures of his English teacher reading Hamlet and sold them to Look Magazine. At 17 he quit college for a full-time job as a Look staff photographer, and at 21 he made his first film: a 15-minute study of a boxer on the day of a fight. It cost $3,900, sold...
...coronation year, perhaps the most memorable picture taken with a Speed Graphic camera, which most newspaper photographers use, was the radiant shot of Queen Elizabeth waving from her carriage (TIME, Nov. 17). But last week, in Graflex's annual $10,000 contest, Charles Dawson's portrait of Elizabeth, for United Press, came in third ($200). Top honors went to a picture of a more universal and more timeless theme-a soldier coming home from the wars (see cut). James N. Keen of the Louisville Courier-Journal won the $500 first prize for his shot of Captain Darrell...
Informed that a spy was taking pictures of the plant, Watertown, Mass, police sped to the U. S. Army's Watertown Arsenal. There beside the railroad tracks, Graflex in hand, was Lucius Beebe, who elaborately explained that he was waiting for Boston & Albany's 601 to come by so that he could take its picture for his forthcoming book on American railroading...
Crippled by infantile paralysis many years ago, the former fire insurance expert now chases fires and photographs them with his Graflex as a hobby. This spring he plans to have a two-way police radio installed so that he can follow police calls...