Word: shutter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from his 1,728 assignments for LIFE in the past 30 years, the record astonishes both by its variety-How could any man have been in so many crucial places?-and its perception. The marvel is finally not the Leica that Eisenstaedt used, but the personal eye behind the shutter...
...outsider know what is going on inside, he designed the Goddard Library as a chassis with each functioning space unit attached, much as a hotrod engine proclaims its parts by exposing its chrome-plated carburetors and exhausts. Black metal snorkels funnel air in and out; angled concrete slabs shutter the windows from the sun; chimney-like staircases take the flow of students into the open bookstacks. "Architecture is not a commodity for those who can afford it," Johansen maintains. "It is a vehicle by which an architect explains his society. There must be a new architecture for our experience...
...months. Three inches have been my staple, and now I'm going for four." In New York, Photographer Camilla ("Cookie") Smith had one made up for her brother at Christmas time, has had so many requests since then that she has temporarily shut her shutter. At $10 each, she is selling 40 "limited-edition," 41-in., signed ties each week. Says she of her sudden success: "People used to get ties like these for 25? in thrift shops but now the shops have been picked clean, and the tie manufacturers are just beginning to think big again...
...distractions or include balancing space; selects a range of focus which best subordinates background to the subject; and controls exposure and lighting to balance highlights with shadows or to discard unnecessary texture as in this silhouette. And that control which is above all serviced for the photographer is the shutter please. A critical sense of timing in conjunction with variable shutter speeds enables him to freeze his subject in its endless progression of movement...
...term, dating back to a 17th century British campaign in Holland, is a corruption of a Dutch phrase meaning "turn off the taps." Before it was blown up into a musical extravaganza, the tattoo was merely the nightly drum signal beaten through the streets to shutter the bars and steer the troops back to their quarters...