Word: plates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shouldn't it serve as the pencil of history too? If faces and flowers could inscribe themselves on the photographic plate, why not battles, ribbon- cutting ceremonies and earthquakes? By 1839, when the invention of photography was made public, a number of illustrated periodicals were already flourishing. But it would require time and a series of technological advances before they could take advantage of the possibilities that the new kind of picture making offered...
...newspaper page, called the halftone process, did not come into widespread use until the 1890s. Until then, most readers had to content themselves with engravings copied from photographs. Meanwhile, the bulky camera gear of the 19th century hardly lent itself to instant coverage. In the cumbersome wet-plate process, which became the norm in the mid-1850s, pictures were formed on a sheet of glass that had to be coated with an emulsion just before the exposure, then developed at once. Action shots were ruled out by the lengthy exposure times, several seconds or more. And while history might...
...brief time of peace, photojournalism waged war against privacy. A decisive weapon appeared in 1924: the Ermanox, a miniature glass-plate camera with a wide-aperture lens. The camera could operate in dim light and without great intrusion. Erich Salomon, a German with a talent for discretion, stalked diplomatic salons and private railway cars with his tripod-held model. In the U.S., a New York Daily News photographer, Tom Howard, strapped a miniature camera to his ankle and violated the mystery of Ruth Snyder's electrocution...
...throw was high, and I had to leap for the ball. Thinking I could still tag Pat, I slammed my mitt down on the plate. I jammed my thumb instead...
...Comets jumped out to an early lead, but we did load the bases up with two outs. The guy who replaced me behind the plate was up. I was on deck, trying to adjust the grip of my bat so that it would lessen the pain in my thumb. He struck out, and before I could turn around and get my glove for the top of the inning, Coach ran up to me and said something like this...