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...amateur photography addicts, Hasselblad dreamed of developing his own camera and got a chance to do so for the Swedish air force in World War II. Then in 1948 he introduced the world's first 2¼-in. by 2¼-in. single-lens reflex camera with interchangeable lenses and magazines. It quickly became a favorite of professional photographers, earning a reputation as the Rolls-Royce of its field, and later was adopted by NASA for all its manned spaceflights. Michael Collins let go of his on his space walk, so a Hasselblad is still circling the earth...
The most striking thing illustrated by the show is how far behind photography?meaning the photographs Szarkowski designates as "serious"?has left its old role as witness to public events. Not one picture in the exhibition, except for an exquisitely formal-looking image of a fire in Minneapolis by...
The Sheed dossiers combine straight biographical facts with opinionated, often blunt assessments. And some spice. Pericle Felici, 66, the "ruthless" front-running candidate on the right, is said to use a telephoto lens to monitor Pope Paul's movements about his palace. Another Curia Cardinal, Giuseppe Maria Sensi, is...
One is inclined to absolve Travolta, since the rest of Grease offers abundant evidence that there was no one behind the lens capable of giving him any guidance. Some of the musical numbers are staged, for no particular reason, as white-on-white stylizations, à la Busby Berkeley, while others...
Graphic sneaked into a lavish stag party to secretly record unspeakable acts performed by a naked circus troupe. That her camera caught her own father in midslather and led to his financial ruin was of little concern. Her ambition had already driven her to beard a haughty Alfred Stieglitz in...