Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town for reasons of health" whenever Dali sought an interview. Dali "held long imaginary conversations with Freud," saw him one night "clinging to the curtains of my room in the Hotel Sacher." Several years later Dali was eating snails in a French town, suddenly saw a newspaper photograph of Freud. Dali uttered a loud cry. Says he: "I had just that instant discovered the morphological secret of Freud! Freud's cranium is a snail!" Dali eventually met Freud. But only when Dali's voice "became involuntarily sharper and more insistent . . . before [Freud's] imperturbable indifference...
...Russian Marc Chagall (TIME, Oct. 26) showed an eight-foot, 1917 portrait of himself astride his wife's shoulders, and giggling. Under it was a 1941 photograph by Manhattan's George Platt Lynes of Art ist Chagall, still giggling, behind a bouquet of flowers...
...takes a sharp, experienced eye to read an aerial photograph, locate targets, measure bomb damage. The picture is flat, looks unnatural because the camera has only one eye and cannot register distance, depth, or solid shape. The third dimension can be added only by double vision, each eye having a slightly different angle on the scene. Such photographs have long been made by double cameras with lenses as far apart as are human eyes. But the production of motion pictures in three dimensions has lagged...
...piece of Erdmannia he did not relate: around 1930 Vanity Fair heard of the "technique," readily got permission for famed Photographer Edward Steichen to photograph it in action. Came the day, and Steichen disposed his assistants high in the amphitheater with flash bulbs. The patient, a woman, had hardly arrived on the scene when Erdmann opened up her abdomen from top to bottom with one neat slice. Suddenly, in the rafters, the photographer's assistants lost their lunches and their balances. Steichen gave up for that day. Next time he fortified himself with troops who had been "blooded." After...
Shocking to say the least was the photograph of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is a most august body, or should be. As individuals they are human and may behave informally as other men, yet even then have some consideration for the great offices they hold. But as a body they should never appear in any manner that might lower the very high degree of respect with which they should be honored by their fellow citizens. Chief Justice Stone looks down the line with evident disapproval...