Word: photographable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average layman your photograph of the gutted daredevil represents practically anything connected with aviation. If you don't believe it, show some disinterested friend of yours that picture and then offer him an airplane ride. . . . This same photograph ran in this paper because I noticed it too late to do anything about...
Successful attempts to photograph the eye in color were made in 1927-28 by Dr. Lawrence Redway of New York. The machine in use at the present time was built by Carl Zeiss in Germany on Dr. Redway's design. A special camera that takes a 4 1/2s6cm. Alga color plate stands on a vertical arm. It is franked by two light sources and in front of it is a chin rest for the subject. The lens is an F: 4.5. The two main modifications that have been made from the original plans are the substitution of incandescent light...
Most effective nude was The Vase and the Maid by Royal Photographer Fred P. Peel in which the body of a standing model is cut by a strange T-shaped arrangement of black velvet. Most banal photograph was A Pleasant Road by Mrs. Rowena Brownell of Providence...
Added Muralist Dean Cornwell: "The photograph has taken the bread completely out of our mouths. The point is how long will it let us starve. It does demand that the artist do better work, and work that is so removed in style that competition will cease to exist...
Seven years ago a sleek, pale-faced young Russian Jew rushed up the back steps of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, tore off his coat and hat, took a photograph of Liszt from his pocket, glanced at it prayerfully, then fairly galloped out on the stage for his U. S. debut. For critics it was a double-barreled evening because Sir Thomas Beecham, famed son of a famed pillman, was also making his U. S. debut. Sir Thomas was as athletic a conductor as New Yorkers had ever seen. But young Vladimir Horowitz, with all his stage fright...