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Around 1962, Arbus switched from a 35-mm camera to a twin-lens Rolleiflex that produced the weighty figures in a square format that became her trademark. It gave her pimply drag queens the mighty tonnage of Rodin's Balzac. Our predispositions still place pressure upon the images in the hope of making them conform to conventional expectations. This is a dwarf, file under "Curiosity"; this is a retarded child, file under "Compassion." But the pictures keep refusing to fit into those files. In that refusal is the enduring power, both of the pictures and the people...
WEST GERMANY'S Rollei-Werke for years has been losing sales to Japanese rivals, whose low wage costs enable them to sell cameras for less than half the price of a Rolleiflex. Fighting to overcome that handicap, Rollei executives recently decided to try to beat the Japanese at their own game. The German firm is investing $12.6 million in a new plant in Singapore. There workers will turn out cameras for sale in the U.S. and East Asia at wage rates only one-sixth as high as in Germany, and two-thirds below those prevailing even in Japanese camera...
...West German city of Braunschweig owes its reputation to a pair of dissimilar products: smoked liverwurst and Rolleiflex cameras. To the dismay of the 48-year-old family firm of Rollei-Werke, Franke & Heidecke, the cameras have proved the more perishable of the two. Although Rollei's famed twin-lens reflex practically revolutionized photography when it was introduced in 1929, business began to go stale in the late '50s when its patents ran out, cheap imitations rolled in, and Rollei was caught without new developments...
...Rollei is rolling again. The company has called a halt to its long dependence on the 120-mm. Rolleiflex, priced at $260-to-$450 in the U.S., and is focusing on the growing market for smaller 35-mm. models. Though overall German camera sales tumbled by 7% last year, Rollei's rose by 40% from $9,000,000 to an estimated $12.5 million. So strong is demand that the company looks for sales increases of 25% this year and next-if the factory can handle...
...91st Street Academy of the Sacred Heart, taking John for a ride on the Central Park carrousel. And then one day, she was out with her children rowing on the Central Park Serpentine, where an alert amateur in the next dinghy took an incredulous look, rapidly unshuttered his Rolleiflex to capture a metropolitan Manet...