Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home movies into melodramas. ("I never felt life was good enough," he says now, "so I had to embellish it.") At his request, Leah boiled cherries jubilee in a pressure cooker until it exploded, and Steven filmed the messy crimson walls and floor. Once Leah asked him to photograph the family in their convertible; Steven took a shot of the hubcap. Leah shakes her head: "I should have known that meant something...
Your book review "How to Make War" [March 8] was illustrated by a photograph of my space-age chess set design. No credits were given for this design, which is a patented product and has been marketed in Europe and the U.S. The development of this set represents years of work and dedication...
...over the South Atlantic, where they can watch both Argentine and British military movements. The intelligence-gathering space vehicles perform various functions. Two were put up to intercept communications. Two others were radar-sensing satellites designed to pick up radar transmissions, particularly from ships. Several were reconnaissance satellites that photograph objects on land or sea and eject capsules of exposed film when the satellites pass over the U.S.S.R. The capsules parachute to earth for recovery and processing...
There are two documentary images of the Great Plains. The first is a black-and-white photograph of the '30s Dust Bowl, with windblown homesteaders treading the cracked earth. The second: a glossy color shot of the same land 40 years later, showing the lush checkerboard farms of America's breadbasket. Now, as if through a strange reversal in time, the second image threatens to fade into the first. For in another 40 years, the territory could backslide into dust and despair. The Ogallala Aquifer, the vast underground reservoir of water that transformed much of the Great Plains...
...second picture appeared three years later, on a campaign flyer mailed to residents throughout Los Angeles' fourth county district only days before the April 1980 election Burke's opponent for the position of L.A. county supervisor had spent $100,000 having the xeroxed photograph distributed and labeled the picture with the blunt question. "Would you vote for this person." Unable to respond to the blatantly racist ploy, Burke lost the race and withdrew from elective politics at together...