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Sir: Again Artzybasheff seems to show us to ourselves, his myopically candid-eyed character beautifully portraying the recent, rather revolting development within our ranks . . . of a whole group of souls who don't know what they've been looking at until the films come back from the drugstore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

To catch the whole football spectacle, Photographer Strock dug up a pair of half-forgotten cameras that were popular in grandfather's time: a boxlike "panoramic camera" with a swiveling lens, and a "circuit camera" turned full circle by a small, spring-driven motor. Years ago itinerant cameramen used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: BIGGER THAN EVER | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Before the natural wonders of the world and facing its innumerable small mysteries, before Niagara Falls, Mount Rushmore and the Eiffel Tower, in Siamese temples, French cathedrals and New England general stores, at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and at the top of the Empire State Building, the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Two Billion Clicks | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Then something happened to Weegee. He began wearing neckties. He went arty. He started experimenting with a strange lens he had developed that put four eyes into the Mona Lisa's face, two heads on the Statue of Liberty, and considerable additions on to Marilyn Monroe's naturally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Two Billion Clicks | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Ashcan school (gloomy photography) baby legs (short-legged tripod) butterfly (shadow beneath a subject's nose) darkroom widow (a hypo hound's wife) Dinky-Inkie (small spotlight) dynamite (strong developing fluid) high hat (low camera support for "worm's eye" pictures) lens louse (he muscles into someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Two Billion Clicks | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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