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Word: tortion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Freeport, Me., flea market when his eye caught an old photograph of some 2,000 Protestant ministers. He bought the picture and took it back to his Brooklyn studio. Looking at it with a magnifying glass, he marveled at the tack-sharp faces and the lack of dis tortion at the ends of the long horizontal photograph. "It suddenly occurred to me," says Dantzic, "that I had no camera in my studio that could do that." After more than a year of inquiries, he found and borrowed the camera he wanted-a turn-of-the-century model called the Cirkut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Taking the Long View | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

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