Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whooping it up with younger beaux. A visitor to Rivera's deserted studio found it barren as December. On his easel stood an unfinished portrait of Maria, the second he has painted (the first: a startling full-length study in a diaphanous gown). Beside the easel reposed a photograph of mercurial Vlaria, her eyes daring and teasing; flanking her taunting image drooped two wilted bouquets...
...photograph islands in the South Seas, Photographer Eliot Elisofon traveled 30,000 miles, partly by copra schooner and outrigger canoe, on the island of Nuku Hiva, made an archaeological discovery of carved idols...
...Photographer Dmitri Kessel worked eight days to get one picture in authentic color of Tintoretto's The Annunciation in Venice's School of San Rocco. One of his biggest problems was to keep both his camera and the 166-in. -by-214 ½-inch framed painting, which had been on the wall for almost 400 years, dead still for a 45-minute time exposure. After overcoming the hazards of Venice's crowded streets and ringing church bells, both resulting in imperceptible vibrations of the building's walls, Kessel discovered another hazard that blurred his picture...
Buttoned up in a tan plaid overcoat, President Juan Perón stepped onto a balcony in Buenos Aires one wintry evening last week. In the street below, a crowd of 10,000 stood near a floodlighted, 24 ft. by 12 ft. photograph of the late Eva Perón. One minute went by. At 8:25, exactly three years after Evita died of cancer, bugles blared. After listening to a four-minute panegyric read by a dolorous radio announcer, the crowd shuffled silently past the balcony. Peron made no speech. There was none of the tone of totalitarian frenzy...
Although Hiltner has yet to put his gadget on a telescope, he and his Yerkes colleagues are sure that it means a revolution in stargazing. At present, astronomers using the world's biggest (200 in., $6.5 million) telescope at Mt. Palomar, Calif, can record, i.e., photograph, galaxies 1 to 2 billion light-years away. With Hiltner's gadget boosting the light intake many times, astronomers may find aging galaxies even farther out and in richer detail than ever before, at a fraction ($180) of the huge costs involved in building bigger telescopes...