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...with a box camera into which a glass plate negative had to be inserted before every shot. The Leica, a lightweight instrument with film on a frame-advance roll, enabled photographers to catch slices of life on the wing. For Kertesz, it made possible subtle and serendipitous pictures like Meudon, a strangely arresting image in which a man is simply crossing the street in one direction while a train passes by over-head, going the other way. It makes no "narrative" sense; it offers no conventional beauty, but it fascinates...
...December, when one of the infrequent edge-on views occurred, Dollfus photographed Saturn through a telescope at the Paris Observatory's Meudon station. When the plates were developed, he detected on several of them a tiny spot of light only about 52,000 miles from the planet's surface. Reasonably confident that he had found a tenth Saturnian moon, he promptly telegraphed news of his discovery to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the world's clearing house for celestial discoveries...
...neuroses") iconoclast and virulent anti-Semite whose deafening, nightmarish and slang-ridden novels, Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan, set the salons aboil before his conviction (later rescinded) as a World War II collaborator with the Nazis; of a stroke; in Meudon, France...
Gwen John spent the last 25 years of her life living and working in poverty at Meudon, near Paris. After Rodin's death, she turned her devotion to a collection of cats; almost the only humans she suffered were the nuns of Meudon and the orphans they cared for. She took Holy Communion each day, but when she was absorbed in painting she would forgo Mass for a month at a time. Her style changed drastically: while her early canvases were built up from thin, fluid paint, she now changed to thick paint, made her colors lighter and lighter...
Intently and seriously, Mère Geneviève studied the space for which she will design the stained glass. The brief journey from her convent at suburban Meudon involved a rare trip into the outside world for the 62-year-old nun who has spent 34 years of her life behind convent walls. Yet in the outside world she is fast becoming a celebrity. Artists and connoisseurs of Paris compare her work with that of Rembrandt, Durer, Goya. French countesses drive out from Paris to the convent at Meudon where she painstakingly turns out her strong, tortured etchings...