Word: honneus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading your June 4 Publisher's Letter and understanding the good will and importance of William Honneus' color slides because of their accuracy, it grieves me greatly to have the vast number of your readers getting such an impression of the Maine coast as seen by William Kienbusch. I hope your paintings won't change the mind of the tourist who has been planning a Maine trip...
...preparation, Honneus collected statistics for his charts, then ransacked his collection of color photographs taken in the U.S. for illustrations. His pictures of rural and urban America, with its growing population at work and enjoying its new leisure, gave a quick but comprehensive review of the nation's burgeoning market. In" nine cities scattered through the Rhineland, the Ruhr and northwest Germany, industrialists and businessmen found it a fascinating report. After seeing it first in Frankfurt, business leaders asked for copies of the color slides for showings in every Chamber of Commerce in West Germany...
During the five-week trip the four-man mission was busy in conference or consultation from early until late, but Honneus still found time to take pictures. Before breakfast he was out shooting street scenes, and late at night he took pictures of window displays in fashionable shopping districts. On the Autobahnen between cities, he sat in the front seat of the mission's Ford station wagon to photograph scenery through the windshield...
Last week Honneus was home again with more than 1,000 new pictures to add to his collection. Among them was a visual report on the mission's activities, which he hopes may some day reach the congressional committees that can influence an expansion of the U.S. trade program...
...privilege to go on one of these missions," Honneus said. "Many more are needed, because the real barrier to trade improvement is not tariff but lack of knowledge of markets. And only through these free and frank exchanges of information between friendly businessmen can this be overcome...