Word: graflex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...