Word: shutterbug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...availability of new, cheaper models is likely to spur sales in business markets, but whether the technology will be attractive to the ordinary shutterbug is an open question. Proponents argue that still videos are simpler to store than slides or color prints and more easily edited than videotapes. The manufacturers envision video-generation consumers exchanging floppy disks by mail and giving video slide shows to friends and relatives. Says Sony's Hiroshi Yasuo: "We believe it will become a big business...
Picture this: an amateur shutterbug walks into a camera shop with a 35-mm color negative and walks out with a glossy print, cropped to his liking, less than five minutes later. That vision will become reality this summer, when Kodak's Create-A-Print 35-mm Enlargement Center, a do-it-yourself printmaker, appears in U.S. photo shops...
...Stanley's Landry, "that during the next ten years the complexion of the photo industry will change more sharply and more rapidly than ever before in its history." Several developments are behind this trend. With 95% of all U.S. households now owning at least one camera, the home shutterbug market is all but saturated. Cameras, moreover, face increased competition from home computers, video recorders and other entrants in the race for the so-called leisure dollar. As a result, many experts doubt that U.S. camera sales will ever again reach 1981's peak of nearly 46 million units...
...seem an unlikely collaborative pair. Wyman, a resident of Vence in southern France, was first introduced to Neighbor Chagall and his wife Valentine three years ago by Andre Verdet, 72, a painter, art critic and friend who was writing a book about the Russian-born impressionist. Being an amateur shutterbug, Wyman expressed an interest in taking the photographs for Verdet's volume, which will be published in France next month. The writer arranged a meeting by explaining to Chagall that the veteran rocker was discreet and modest, "not like the other members of the Rolling Stones band." Chagall...
Stieglitz's works are deceptively simple, accomplishments theoretically available to any shutterbug with a decent camera. Yet his artistry lies precisely in this mistaken impression. His chief contribution to photography was the absolute clarity of his vision. He never fell back on gimmickry, never allowed ingenuity or cleverness to distort his focus. He looked steadily at people, places and things and allowed them to speak to the eyes of others. If his images seem familiar now, that is because Stieglitz taught this century to see them. -By Paul Gray