Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit laboratories of Parke, Davis & Co., a research team headed by Virologist Alton R. Taylor started by growing polio virus of the Type I or Brunhilde strain in test tubes with tissues from animals. The company is not telling how the purification was achieved, and its photograph shows particles of different sizes...
...natural wonders of the world and facing its innumerable small mysteries, before Niagara Falls, Mount Rushmore and the Eiffel Tower, in Siamese temples, French cathedrals and New England general stores, at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and at the top of the Empire State Building, the U.S. amateur photographer pursues his hobby. His camera's combined clicks (he is taking nearly 2 billion pictures this year) would drown the loudest thunder, and the combined light from his flashbulbs (he is using 500 million) would make a major planet pale. The sun to him is chiefly a source...
...French cartoon soon complained that half of mankind had become "daguerreocrazed," while the rest was "daguerreomazed."*Everything in sight was caught on the magic plates-Victor Hugo's hand, the moon, the 30th reunion of the Yale class of 1810, President John Quincy Adams (first U.S. President ever photographed). But already the revolt against realism had begun. A Swedish photographer named Oscar Rejlander invented the composite photograph, and started to turn out allegories. His most startling picture was produced from 30 separate negatives : The Two Paths of Life, showing one youth embarking on a career of virtue, illustrated...
...affairs, always featuring, as one writer described them, "the pianoforte, the music box, the singing of birds; the elegant drapery . . . the struggling sunbeam peering through doors of stained glass . . ." But production was upped from a few pictures to thousands a day, partly because of a group of go-getting photographers nicknamed "blue bosom boys." (As in TV, they could not properly photograph white shirt fronts.) Then photography passed two major milestones: ¶ U.S. picture journalism began with Mathew Brady, who passionately took up photography at 16. A weak-eyed, blue-spectacled portrait photographer, he decided in 1861 to cover...
...Printed Page. Young photographers seem jaded by technical perfection, regard stark effects that were considered shattering a decade or two ago merely as snapshots. Says Edward Steichen: "We hate clarity, and want feeling in what we photograph. We think that there is a deadly monotony in technical procedure . . . Anyone can take pictures, but we need at least 200 years before photography really gets good...