Word: tripodic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against privacy. A decisive weapon appeared in 1924: the Ermanox, a miniature glass-plate camera with a wide-aperture lens. The camera could operate in dim light and without great intrusion. Erich Salomon, a German with a talent for discretion, stalked diplomatic salons and private railway cars with his tripod-held model. In the U.S., a New York Daily News photographer, Tom Howard, strapped a miniature camera to his ankle and violated the mystery of Ruth Snyder's electrocution...
...which he does these days at Sarah Lawrence College. Earlier in his career he was known for his 35-mm urban street scenes. In 1978 he received the first of two Guggenheim grants for a series of cross-country travels. He used part of the money to buy a tripod-mounted 8-by-10 view camera that produces the fine detail essential to the new images he was after. When his pictures from those trips began appearing in photography magazines and exhibits, the most talked about featured a cool view of the relationship between people and nature: a suburban street...
Someone said the encampments outside Albany budget hearings lasted for days at a time. I looked at the ceiling and wondered whether this waiting game became bearable with practice. A camera technician pushed through the crowd with a folded tripod, muttering, "This is the limit. I'm getting my real estate license...
Sometime during his vacation in Guatemala this week, Staff Writer Michael Lemonick will unpack his amateur astronomer's 4-in. reflecting telescope, set it on its tripod and focus low on the southern horizon. His target: the pinprick of light from Supernova 1987A, the exploding star that is the subject of his cover story in this week's issue. Lemonick, who lives in Princeton, N.J., has made a hobby of stargazing for the past two years. "I usually set up the telescope in my backyard, but Princeton is just too far north to see 1987A. If you travel...
This is the imaginary tract that Richard Avedon has now populated. Over a five-year period, at the behest of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Avedon took hundreds of portraits throughout the West. Using an eight-by-ten view camera on a tripod, he photographed people at rodeos in Montana, oil fields in Oklahoma and a "rattlesnake roundup" in Texas. He picked more than 100 of those shots for a traveling exhibition titled "In the American West," which began at the Amon Carter earlier this year and has now opened at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. A condensed...