Word: leicas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within a year came widespread use of the famed Leica, which replaced fragile glass plates with spool-wound 35-mm film. Meanwhile, film was getting "faster," allowing pictures to be taken in almost any light. Thus equipped, the photographer had become, like the modern soldier, a self- contained, highly mobile warrior. His lines of communication were greatly extended in 1935 when the Associated Press inaugurated its first Wirephoto transmission service...
...month. Not only are they packed with computer chips and high-tech features, but each also sports a new, high-tech look, one that owes more to the smooth curves of the video camcorder than to the basic rectangular design that has dominated 35-mm cameras since the 1924 Leica Model "A." Says Yasuhiko Nakayama, the veteran video-camera designer who created the Chinon Genesis: "We wanted a unique design concept to match the new type of camera...
...going to change that. Curator Peter Galassi has mounted 90 photographs that Cartier-Bresson, 79, took at the outset of his career, mostly from 1932 through 1934. During those years he put aside his ambitions as a painter and began stalking the streets of three continents with a lightweight Leica and a potent surrealist intuition, an eye for the unearthly subtext of ordinary scenes. Add his powerful gift for spatial arrangement, and the result, says Galassi, is "one of the great, concentrated episodes of modern...
...believer. Breton and his circle of poets and artists wanted to revolutionize both consciousness and society through the purposeful absurdities of the unconscious. To dislodge conventional habits of mind, they practiced unpremeditated methods of creation, "unguided" sketching and automatic writing. Moved by their example, Cartier-Bresson realized that his Leica was the most automatic art instrument of all, one that could make split-second images that owed much to chance and much less to calculation...
...Reagan brought along his new chief of staff, Howard Baker, who brought along his Leica and was snapping pictures of Education Secretary William Bennett, big, rumpled and charging into the teeth of organized education with the firm belief that more money is not the way to excellence. He pointed out that student scores were declining during the years that education budgets went up the fastest...