Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They seemed to be simply everywhere, even when they weren't. On the cover of the February Ladies' Home Journal was a likeness of Jackie Kennedy in wedding gown and veil; it was actually a photograph of Mary Lynn Merrill (nee Caldwell), a Charlotte, N.C., bride who looks more like Jackie than Jackie does. On the cover of Photoplay magazine was the bona fide Jacqueline Kennedy, with Daughter Caroline at her side. The story inside: a lengthy comparison of Caroline and Shirley Temple. Said Photoplay: "We waited 20 years until another little girl, Caroline Kennedy, came running into...
...Army's White House detail came a partial explanation of Sunday Painter Dwight Eisenhower's striking success at capturing likenesses in his portraits. Confessed ex-Private Ray Seide. now art director of a Manhattan ad agency, in an Esquire article: "When we received the photograph or illustration [on which the Eisenhower painting was to be based], I would put it into a projector. If the machine didn't throw an image large enough for the size of the canvas the President wanted, I would draw the subject larger. Then I would outline in charcoal on the canvas...
...news that everyone can see coming we try to treat in fresh ways. Weeks before the first transatlantic crossing of the French Line's new S.S. France, we got aboard the ship to photograph its interiors in color, and combine this with views of two other new liners that dare to challenge the age of jets. From aboard the France. Researcher Marcia Gauger reported: "If anyone thinks the maiden voyage on the France is all champagne and caviar-well...
Bathed in Elegance. The upper classes were fascinated by pictures which, like the modern photograph, could be put into albums. They bought engravings of London scenes, of romantic ruins, of exotic places they had seen on their travels, and of their own stately homes. This led to a longing for original drawings, which in turn gave way to a yearning for color. An Englishman produced a paper treated to withstand innumerable washings and spongings. With the demand so great and with new materials at hand, the watercolor became not only good art but also good business. Though the Royal Academy...
...Outsider (Universal-International). The most famous photograph of World War II was Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize picture of six marines planting the Stars and Stripes on the summit of Mount Suribachi, the highest point on Iwo Jima. Three of the marines were later killed on Iwo; the three who survived became national heroes. But one of the survivors, a Pima Indian named Ira Hayes, was killed by that snapshot as surely, if not as swiftly, as by a bullet...