Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smoke Photography. Aerial photographers at McCook Field, Ohio, gave full credit to the Eastman Kodak Co. for new "K-panchromatic" plates by which flying observers can photograph the earth through smoke screens and light fog. The plates are treated with a secret cyanide, "krypto-cyanide," sensitive to infra-red rays which, though invisible to the eye, penetrate smoke and water vapor to record an image in the camera. The significance: protection for wartime mapmakers...
Below was a large photograph of John North Willys, the "Little Napoleon" of the automotive business (TIME, June 28). He was posed telephoning at his office desk with an extra interoffice telephone and scattered papers denoting the tense executive. The advertisement was intended to convey the idea that Mr. Willys, for the present season, leads the trend of U. S. automobile fashions...
...however, as do their fellows in other illiterate countries, but with typewriters. Around their desks cluster little groups of picturesque peones in cinema costumes-huge hats and white shirts, usually with the Mexican eagle and serpent embroidered on the bosom-and armed to the teeth. I wanted a photograph of one of these groups, but the 'evangelist' promptly stopped me. The laws in Mexico today forbid photographing local types and costumes that make the country look to foreigners as if it were theatrical and out of date...
...with our aspirations for independence, recognize fully the obligation contained in the preamble to the Jones law and are disposed to favor more, instead of less, self-government for us." Recently in the U. S. gum-chewers were horrified upon opening their favorite pink-sheeted tabloid to see the photograph of a Filipino native with a four-inch tail...
...ravishing hosiery advertisements; of the stunning magazine covers, richly illustrated natural histories, automobile catalogs and many more visual luxuries that are rushed today before the eyes of a sophisticated world. Frederick E. Ives was a Connecticut boy, who obtained a post at Cornell University in charge of photographic laboratory work. In 1879 he developed his first ideas for reproducing on a metal printing plate all the details, tone and "half tones" of a photograph, painting or drawing. In 1881 he produced the first printing blocks which, by printing one after the other with different inks, would reproduce a subject...