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From black-and-white, Close moved to color, but again in a system-dominated way. Color printing is done with three colors: cyan (a greenish blue), magenta (a purplish red) and yellow. Close took his photo, had color separations made, and then proceeded to render each square of the canvas with each of the colors, successively, exquisitely controlling the amount of each hue per pixel. There was a yellow face, then a blue overlay, and then with the magenta one--presto, full exact color. No room for deviation or correction. Paint-by-numbers raised to the nth degree. It goes...
Four days ago The Crimson marked its 125th anniversary. It was on Jan. 24, 1873, that 10 Harvard students distributed the first issue of The Magenta--a newspaper that would undergo more than just several name changes, and evolve over the years into the paper you are holding today...
...first Crimson president, Henry A. Clark, Class of 1874, were to see this morning's edition, one could only imagine his surprise at how much things have changed. With photos, longer stories, a weekly magazine and even TV listings, the paper is a vastly different product from The Magenta...
Despite all these changes, it is remarkable at how much has also stayed the same. The Crimson is still a newspaper, printed on newsprint and hand delivered to its subscribers. People read a 1998 Crimson much in the same way they read an 1873 Magenta. With the advent of television and radio, the newspaper still remains the preeminent way to distribute Harvard news...
...earliest version of today's Crimson was born on Jan. 24, 1873, publishing as a bi-weekly under "The Magenta" banner. (The paper changed its name two years later when the College changed its color.) It was a thin layer of editorial content surrounded by a thinner layer of advertising. It barely scraped through the 70s, sometimes requiring its editors to pay for the printing costs themselves. But at the beginning of the 1880s it found itself on more solid financial footing...