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The Trial is by no means a great film. It is founded on an esthetic fallacy-the proposition that a camera can see what is unseeable: Meaning, Being, Mystery. But when Welles makes a mistake he makes it on a grand scale and in the grand manner. He is one...
Permanent magnets seemed permanently limited until Westinghouse Engineer Ray Radus taught them a new trick. Radus began by building an unusually strong magnet, a slice of ceramic material sandwiched between flat plates of soft steel. With the steel focusing its lines of magnetic force in much the same manner that...
With Camera Obscura. The Daniells landed in Calcutta in 1786. spent two years making sketches of the city for a series of aquatints. The pictures were published back in England with such success that the artists decided to penetrate into upper India on "guiltless spoliations'' of more picturesque...
Tough Picture. When the released dyes reach the surface, they hit a sheet of white paper coated with large, stationary molecules of an acid material. These clutch the dyes as they arrive and form them into a tough, many-colored surface that reproduces the colored image focused by the camera...
Honored by the German Society for Photography, the world's foremost photographic organization: LIFE Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, 63. who returned to his native Germany for the first time in 27 years to accept a symbolic optical lens with an 18-carat gold rim and a $1.250 cash prize "as...