Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shooting a picture is remarkably simple. The tapestry, or any other object to be photographed, is set up exactly 3.9 meters (13 ft.) away from the focal point of the lens, that distance being double the focal length of the lens. Then the tapestry is illuminated with banks of lights (see diagram) while, inside the camera, technicians fine-focus the image on a screen 3.9 meters behind the focal point of the lens. Next, they lower a huge sheet of standard Polaroid negative stock, hold it flat against the screen with a vacuum pump and trip the shutter, thus exposing...
...must study an object a long tune," Matisse remarked in 1951, "to know what its sign is." The signs he developed in the cut-outs are a testament to his gift for preserving the ebullience of nature in a medium that naturally moved toward decorative formality...
...richest-and most crowded-site is the Mother Lode, a network of streams cutting through the High Sierra in Northern California. There at General John Suiter's mill, 90 miles south of Downieville, James Marshall set off the great gold rush of 1849 by discovering a shiny gilt object smaller than a pea. While the Mother Lode has yielded a billion dollars' worth of gold since then, geologists estimate that the vast majority of the region's treasure is still waiting to be found...
...studied medicine and engineering in pre-World War I Germany while, at the same time, painting and sculpting. In 1920 he wrote Realistic Manifesto, which outlined the principles he was to espouse, rejecting sculpture as mass and calling for the use of space as a structural part of the object. After working in England (1935-46), Gabo moved to the U. S. and in 1952 became an American citizen. He created a dazzling, airy body of work, fragile and coolly elegant. Twisting, swooping arcs made of glass or plastic, for example, were strung with wires like harps. His work greatly...
...question of how the once unremarkable Berkowitz acquired his demonic delusions will, of course, be the object of intense psychiatric study. Born Rich ard David Falco, but given up for adoption by his mother at birth, the killer was raised by Nathan Berkowitz, a respected owner of a small hardware store in The Bronx. His first wife pampered David, but one family friend recalls that the boy sometimes would "curse her because he knew he was adopted." Nevertheless, when she died of cancer in 1967, her teen-age son sobbed openly at the funeral; no body could remember his crying...