Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first practical means to print photos on a newspaper page, called the halftone process, did not come into widespread use until the 1890s. Until then, most readers had to content themselves with engravings copied from photographs. Meanwhile, the bulky camera gear of the 19th century hardly lent itself to instant coverage. In the cumbersome wet-plate process, which became the norm in the mid-1850s, pictures were formed on a sheet of glass that had to be coated with an emulsion just before the exposure, then developed at once. Action shots were ruled out by the lengthy exposure times, several...
...raging torrent, swollen with the trophies of war, disaster, luck and adventure. Pluck from the current some unidentified floating object. Pass it around. Put it on display. Argue about what it means. That's photojournalism. No one knows exactly when it was born, but it was in the instant some photographer pointed his lens at an event other people wanted to see. Since then, photojournalism has remained the best way of freeze-drying history for further inspection...
...founding of the photographers' cooperative Magnum had established the principle that picture takers should own the rights to their work. (Previously, rights had belonged to whoever commissioned a project.) Photojournalism could even claim a | theoretical foundation, as in Henri Cartier-Bresson's idea of the photographer as instant organizer of reality...
...drop invited instant comparison with the month's two historic calamities: the 1987 collapse on Oct. 19 and the 1929 debacle on Oct. 29. Particularly gnawing was the memory that 1987's Black Monday was preceded by a Friday plunge of 108.35 points. Last week's drop-off rekindled fears that an era of heedless borrowing by corporations and the Federal Government might finally be coming to grief. At the very least, the rout reminded investors that the stock market is a volatile place where fortunes can vanish at the touch of a computer key. After one frantic hour...
...FRANCISCO--At first, sitting in the dugout at Candlestick Park, Tony La Russa thought the fans were just stamping their feet. In an instant, he realized it was an earthquake, and the first-ever Bay area World Series became secondary...