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...Your story features the progress of U.S. photography. Is it significant that the cover is a painting of things photographic rather than a photograph of same...
...with Baker's first cover that TIME started its unique portraiture reporting, a technique in which the artist works entirely from photographs. Says Baker: "Having the subject sit through many poses would be impractical both for the artist and the busy person whose face has become so newsworthy. For each assignment the artist is given a basic photograph of his subject plus ten to 30 other pictures which furnish supplementary data on head construction, facial forms and expressions revealed by the different camera angles and lighting. I have searched thousands of photographs for facial forms, from bony structure...
...Detroit laboratories of Parke, Davis & Co., a research team headed by Virologist Alton R. Taylor started by growing polio virus of the Type I or Brunhilde strain in test tubes with tissues from animals. The company is not telling how the purification was achieved, and its photograph shows particles of different sizes...
...affairs, always featuring, as one writer described them, "the pianoforte, the music box, the singing of birds; the elegant drapery . . . the struggling sunbeam peering through doors of stained glass . . ." But production was upped from a few pictures to thousands a day, partly because of a group of go-getting photographers nicknamed "blue bosom boys." (As in TV, they could not properly photograph white shirt fronts.) Then photography passed two major milestones: ¶ U.S. picture journalism began with Mathew Brady, who passionately took up photography at 16. A weak-eyed, blue-spectacled portrait photographer, he decided in 1861 to cover...
...Printed Page. Young photographers seem jaded by technical perfection, regard stark effects that were considered shattering a decade or two ago merely as snapshots. Says Edward Steichen: "We hate clarity, and want feeling in what we photograph. We think that there is a deadly monotony in technical procedure . . . Anyone can take pictures, but we need at least 200 years before photography really gets good...