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...hazards of Venice's crowded streets and ringing church bells, both resulting in imperceptible vibrations of the building's walls, Kessel discovered another hazard that blurred his picture. The heat from the floodlights made warm air behind the painting push the canvas almost microscopically while his shutter was open. He finally prevented that by heating the painting beforehand with lights. The result was worth the effort: Italian art experts said that Kessel's results "succeeded for the first time in reproducing photographically Tintoretto's original colors as the artist himself must have seen them...
...private court staffed with lawyers paid by the association, weighed Mendelsohn's case carefully, penalized him by putting his shop on the "Stop List." Thenceforth, no wholesalers who belonged to the Association could sell to Mendelsohn. Unless he could find a bootleg supplier, he would have to shutter his shop...
Anyone who has ever been bothered by a lack of knowledge of the special characteristics of hydroquinone or has longed to click the shutter of a 4.5 Speed Graphic (with on without a can of beer in the other hand) should visit 14 Plympton St. tonight. At 7 p.m. the CRIMSON will open its doors a horde of would-be news photographers. And they needn't be experienced...
...appeared in 1948 in a deluxe limited edition of 1,500 copies, has since brought $50 a copy as a raffish collector's item. While the edition is now no longer limited, the guiding theme undoubtedly is. Author Williams, 40, best known for his plays, snaps his literary shutter again and again on portraits of the hero as cripple, and on the human personality in states of hopeless, neurotic disrepair. One story, Portrait of a Girl in Glass, shines with a luminous pity that gives it a lonely merit. From this tale of a childlike drift-and-dream girl...
Every Friday at noon from Cairo to Karachi, the thin nasal wail of muezzins crying, "There is no God but Allah," calls the faithful to the salat al-jami, the obligatory Friday service. The devout shutter their shops, rush through a thorough washing, and hurry into the mosque. Clad in dignity and finery, the imam ascends the pulpit, murmurs "salaam alei-kum," recites a text from the Koran, and begins a sermon which rarely lasts more than 20 minutes. So it has been for centuries...