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...news that everyone can see coming we try to treat in fresh ways. Weeks before the first transatlantic crossing of the French Line's new S.S. France, we got aboard the ship to photograph its interiors in color, and combine this with views of two other new liners that dare to challenge the age of jets. From aboard the France. Researcher Marcia Gauger reported: "If anyone thinks the maiden voyage on the France is all champagne and caviar-well...
Bathed in Elegance. The upper classes were fascinated by pictures which, like the modern photograph, could be put into albums. They bought engravings of London scenes, of romantic ruins, of exotic places they had seen on their travels, and of their own stately homes. This led to a longing for original drawings, which in turn gave way to a yearning for color. An Englishman produced a paper treated to withstand innumerable washings and spongings. With the demand so great and with new materials at hand, the watercolor became not only good art but also good business. Though the Royal Academy...
...Outsider (Universal-International). The most famous photograph of World War II was Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize picture of six marines planting the Stars and Stripes on the summit of Mount Suribachi, the highest point on Iwo Jima. Three of the marines were later killed on Iwo; the three who survived became national heroes. But one of the survivors, a Pima Indian named Ira Hayes, was killed by that snapshot as surely, if not as swiftly, as by a bullet...
There was still much ado about the nothing worn (above the waist, anyhow) by frail Model Christina Paolozzi, 22, in a full-page Richard Avedon photograph published by Harper's Bazaar in the January issue. The clothes-horsing magazine identified Manhattan-born Christina as a "Contessa" (she insists she is not), proudly admired "the classic spirit, abhorring the demure and falsely modest." But the photo was agitating the female press corps to its foundations. Tartly advised Syndicated Columnist Inez Robb: "The excursion into overexposure has unwittingly proved that not diamonds but clothes are a girl's best friend...
...Crivelli Pieta, and the trick was to tell what part was original and what part had been restored. Except for certain slick parts, most of the crackled surface seemed beyond reproach. It might even have fooled the Fogg, had the man who donated the painting not also given two photographs of it. one taken in 1907 and the other in 1909. The earlier photograph showed that before restoration about half of Christ's body had peeled...