Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, they knew they had the best job in the world. No matter what, there is nothing a photojournalist would rather do than look at the world around him and take pictures of it -- pictures of living history, which means, especially, pictures of human behavior. If he doesn't get a thrill out of that job, if he doesn't wake every morning with excitement and go out with his cameras hanging on him like a gold prospector with his rock hammer in hand, % he's no good. Over the years some photojournalists have said to me, "if they didn...
...19th century mind, with its penchant for the scientific and the mechanical, the camera was the supreme mechanism, a trap for facts. Capable of capturing high detail, operated with a minimum of human intervention, it seemed from the first to have a special purchase on the truth. William Henry Fox Talbot, the Englishman who was one of photography's inventors, was merely summing up what would become the judgment of the day when he called his new process the "pencil of nature...
...YORK--It was a battle of world chess champions--human vs. computer--and the mind proved mightier than the microchip...
Kasparov said at first he missed the psychological tension and energy of a human opponent. But then he "felt a burst of energy from the audience wanting me to really crush the computer. Because we all have something in common--we are all human beings...
...could speculate endlessly about the source of our fascination with catastrophe: it could stem from an intrinsic human penchant for the morbid, from a profound national boredom rooted in suburbanization, from an intense nervousness about what the future holds for those who lived through the profligate America of the 1980s, or from any other number of conditions or some combination thereof...