Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture Forbes published of Henry Ford which you described [TIME, April 18] as "a caricature" and commented on, was an actual photograph of Mr. Ford...
...clipping showed a photograph of a sad-looking little fox terrier dog. Said the clipping...
...things you say about people under their pictures are sometimes little short of disgusting. What a blasphemy to print the photograph of saintly Joseph Lister and underneath it say: "They reminded him of sewage." I wish my husband was here to write you the indignation he, a doctor, would have felt at your indecency. "Joseph Lister slopped carbolic acid."' Ugh I Evidently you never heard that medicine is a ministry. I am sure Dr. Lister performed his miracles with grace...
James A. Reed, Missouri Senator, tried to look puzzled as he reverted to his game of baiting the White House spokesman. "Why don't the newspapers photograph the White House spokesman?" said he to reporters. "What does this mysterious person look like? The newspapers are always printing pictures of people prominent in the news. The White House spokesman is always being quoted. He is constantly in the news. But I've never yet seen a picture...
...amazing." By its virtue, newspaper pictures can be transmitted in a simple code of numbers and letters and composed like any other text on a linotype. Telegravure is far simpler than telephotography. Telephotography requires costly apparatus to transform pictures into electric impulses, then back to pictures. The transmitted photograph must be engraved. The Ford process starts with a special photographic plate which "screens" the original picture with a mesh of fine crossed lines. The varying tones of black, grey and white-there are about 26 tones in the standard half-tone print-are thus laid out in a pattern like...