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...green, cloud-mottled crescent in the dark lunar sky-Surveyor's view of the earth. A color version of Surveyor's black-and-white pictures of the earth eclipsing the sun (TIME, May 5, 1967) showed the dark disk of the earth silhouetted against a yellow-orange halo, caused by the refraction of sunlight through the earth's atmosphere...
...depicts a redhaired teeny-bopper in a crumpled miniskirt displaying maximum legginess. Her pose of independence is amplified by a Hula Hoop pseudo halo and a background of the Stars and Stripes. Says Lindner: "I am not a woman hater or a sadist. Women who would be angels wouldn't interest me. They'd be sexless...
...this came about because of the early days of black-and-white photography. Being in monotone, the image had to be separated from the background. So they introduced back-lighting, and all the characters wore a halo. They were aiming at a third dimension, but they never really achieved it. So you would find yourself in a scene, let's say, in a farmhouse cottage, with bright lights hitting the people, coming from we don't know where, and creating back shadows everywhere. This method then transferred itself to color, which was quite unnecessary because color separates itself from...
Missing Faces. As the masons chipped away, the golden rays of the halo surrounding the head of the announcing angel were slowly revealed. Giotto's frescoes, hidden from sight for over 300 years, had been found. "Our expectations were enormous," he remembers. But the rays heralded a false dawn. Says Procacci: "When we saw that the face of the angel was missing, it broke our hearts." Procacci is convinced that the face of Mary in the Annunciation fresco that Vasari so admired was similarly cut out before the wall was covered in the 17th century...
...Merrill Lynch (and TIME), but let's take off the halo...