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...soar in Russia, personal competitiveness be exalted, and the model of the disciplined intellect be scrapped in favor of the search for self-comfort in cars, cuisine and water beds. And if a brainy kid from Brooklyn becomes the all-American hero, should not the U.S. close its bars, shutter its stadiums, and encourage its citizens to march off to libraries to explore the storehouses of knowledge? What good are pleasure and profits when true joy seems to reside in the cerebral mastery of a checkered board...
...process, a small pod of jelly-like chemicals attached to the positive is ruptured and spread across the sheet. Within seconds, the finished picture is ready. The other new feature of the Model 95 was Land's "exposure value system," which reduced the previously complex calculation of shutter speed and lens opening to a simple dial adjustment. Variations of it have since become standard on all but the most inexpensive cameras...
...dominate an annual meeting soon found out differently. Land had decided to use this meeting to stage the long-awaited debut of his new, pocket-sized camera. Unfolding a leather-covered box to form a vaguely triangular Polaroid camera. Land focused on his oversized meerschaum pipe and pushed the shutter button five times in quick succession. About a second after each touch, a 3-in. by 3-in. blank plastic square shot out. Slowly and almost magically, like invisible ink being activated, they turned into color prints...
...little camera he raises and snaps with one hand be sucked a sad ???m right out of America onto film. taking rank among the tragic poets of the world..." as Kerouac himself put it. When he was working he was always alone, rarely seen, the quiet click of his shutter nearly always passing unheard, he might as well been a wraith...
Cradled in the crook of his arm or clutched tightly in his palm, the camera is his constant companion. At any instant, any place, Henri Cartier-Bresson may suddenly lift his battered Leica to eye level, click the shutter and return instantly to whatever he was doing before what he calls "the decisive moment." Capturing such moments-usually joy, sadness, love, a memory reflected in a face or posture-has been Cartier-Bresson's life and profession for more than three decades. He has become the master of the documentary photograph...