Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taking rabbits out of the pockets of his friends. He watched the aviators on Long Island preparing for the flight to Paris in the spring of 1927. He came to know Charles Augustus Lind bergh, and etched his portrait directly on copper plate from memory, aided by a photograph, the day Lindbergh landed in Paris. Exhibited in Manhattan while Paris was still cheering, that bit of work did much to establish West. The impressions are now worth about $100 each...
...mandolins and guitars in the dignified Grand Central premises. They drank tea and other liquids. They smoked cigarets in modernist defiance of signs that read "No Smoking." Some of them ranged themselves earnestly around "Egg Beater No 5," a thoroughly modernistic creation by Modernist Stuart Davis, and had their photograph taken. It was the biggest event in the campaign to modernize U. S. art since the Armory Show of 1913, in which several of the same artists were represented. Now the modernists were and are in control of the situation. Of the 33 exhibitors at the Grand Central show...
...example, witness the photograph of a thoroughly scoured and denuded area of southern Newfoundland which was unquestionably crossed by very recent ice. Here (at Burgeo) the granitic hills are absolutely stripped of all soil and rotten rock-mantle, and the conspicuously striated ledges contain gourges which look as if they might have been hacked only yesterday by a sharp mattock or heavy chisel. In this region, too, great boulders as large as small houses are scattered irregularly over the hills, the boulders having fresh and undecayed surfaces...
...western Newfoundland consists in attempting to cross these snow-fields, a feat practically impossible unless one cuts steps in the icy masses; for although looking safe enough, these long-weathered snow-fields have a glassy surface, and it is easier to fall than to walk upon them. The photograph of my two companions at the lower edge of such a snow-field illustrates an experience which can be enjoyed on hundreds of slopes in late August after the melting days of summer are past...
...Deck (RKO). As a stage musical comedy, this was well liked three years ago. As a photograph of a stage musical comedy, it is handicapped by the fact that its great tunes-"Hallelujah" and "Sometimes I'm Happy"-are just old enough to be stale. Its story, stale to begin with, is laid in a seaport town populated by chorus girls who are always ready to swing into a routine, and by numerous chorus-boy sailors named Smith. Jack Oakie's talents are subdued by his struggles with the dialog. A girl named Polly Walker, new to films...