Word: weres
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Central administration, writes Tocqueville, explains "why it was that an uprising of the people could overwhelm so abruptly and decisively a monarchy that for so many centuries had successfully withstood so many onslaughts and, on the very eve of its downfall, seemed inexpungible even to the men who were about...
"The opportunities were there," Hackeling said. "We just have to start finding the net."
It is sometimes felt that because photographs are the product of a mechanical tool, a camera, that some of the great pictures made by photojournalists are simply lucky shots, accidents. One day when Edward Steichen, the late dean of American photography, was taking a group of visitors through an exhibition...
All through the later decades of the 19th century, the explosive industrialism that was the engine of American wealth pounded fiercely at the workers who kept it running. Factories were foul and dangerous. Twelve-hour workdays were common. Wages were driven mercilessly downward. Depressions periodically rattled the economy, erasing millions...
That the camera could achieve a distinctly poetic justice would be proved a few years later by Lewis Hine, a onetime photography teacher who worked with a reformer's sense of mission and an artist's eye. Riis' pictures were raw; Hine's were frank but tender, with none of...