Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geneva, Red China's poker-faced Premier Chou En-lai allowed Communist newsmen to photograph him at his assured ease. The pictures were released to Western newsmen, who were not allowed to talk to Chou. It all made a prettied-up picture, to go with the whole confident facade of advancing and unstoppable Communism in Asia...
Self-assured and suave, Capa was equally at home in the salons of Mayfair or in the waterfront saloons of Marseille. But it was on the battlefronts of World War II that Photographer Capa cut a commanding figure. Once with the 82nd Airborne Division, an admiring paratrooper who was preparing to jump turned to Capa and said seriously: "I don't like your job, pal. It's too dangerous." Near Bastogne, Capa got in front of an advancing U.S. column and was "captured" by G.I.s, suspicious of his thickly accented English. (He was freed after showing his photographer...
Salons & Saloons. Capa was born Andrè Friedmann in Hungary. At 18 he went to Germany to study sociology, started to earn his way as a part-time photographer. When Hitler came to power, Capa skied across the border into Austria, then went to Paris, where he hit upon a unique scheme to sell his pictures. He invented a famed photographer-himself. He posed as darkroom assistant for "a rich, talented American photographer named Robert Capa." French newspapers and magazines were first impressed with the nonexistent Capa's buildup. Then they were impressed with the pictures Andrè Friedmann...
Then Ike found a small penknife. He glanced at the older Widerbergs, got an approving nod, and gave it to Will. For Dawn the President inscribed a photograph. A small gold-cornered notebook made a fine souvenir for Greg, and, as an added prize, the President found a silver dollar for Lynda. "Oh, Momniie," she said, "I got a medal." As the Widerbergs were ushered out, Lynda held up the silver dollar, exclaimed to reporters, "Ain't I lucky...
...Sunday, Aug. 24, 1873, pioneer Western Photographer William H. Jackson and his helpers clambered up the iced boulders of Colorado's wild Sawatch mountains with a bulky camera, primitive film, darkroom tent and developing chemicals to make the first photograph of a natural wonder: the Mountain of the Holy Cross. Jackson made thousands of other pictures, but Holy Cross was considered his masterpiece. Despite technical progress, the thousands of Holy Cross photographs made since never surpassed Jackson's famous picture. And none, it turned out last week, ever will...