Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Associated Press disclosed late last night that the Observatory staff was preparing to photograph any disc that happened to turn up, but that nothing had arrived as yet over the summit of Blue Hill...
...taxi to the spot in Rome where Mussolini had set up the golden statue of the Lion of Judah, captured at Addis Ababa. Now the statue was safely back in Africa in Haile Selassie's keeping. The spot in Rome was empty. King Pedro turned to his photographers. "Photograph that for me," he commanded...
...Moslem, who had lost his leather works in riots at Amritsar, no longer cared whether he was in Pakistan or Hindustan. Unshaven and ragged, Chaudhri Ahmen Hasan wandered aimlessly among the ruins of his property, carrying a big framed photograph of Jinnah. From time to time Hasan paused and addressed the picture: "Are you happy now, Qaid-e-Azam [Great Leader]? You have at last achieved Pakistan...
Where did you get that dreadful photograph? It shows me to be snaggletoothed, whereas my teeth are white and even and small...
...quiet. His father, a Manhattan wool merchant, had sent him to study engineering in Berlin, but he liked studying photography better. He came home famous at 26, in a few years had won 150 prizes. Stieglitz was already becoming noted for his "firsts." He was the first to photograph moving objects at night. His imaginative eye made him a pioneer in picturing airplanes, snowstorms, skyscrapers, clouds. Then, flaunting his black cape in the face of the American dollar, the young romantic announced that he disliked competitions and would not make one picture for money. Stieglitz had plenty of uses...