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...Monet-he kept his word. In 1905 he helped Stieglitz start the Photo-Secession Galleries in New York, a rallying point for those who wanted to "secede from the notion that photography is only literal representation." Steichen wanted to "push out the realm of the camera." He loved "wet days, yellow, foggy days, twilights," and to catch the mood, he would purposely blur the picture by kicking the tripod or wetting the lens. In developing his famed Steeplechase Day, Paris; After the Races, a carefree scene at the Longchamp track, he kept the background dark, highlighting the figures until they...
...story concerns the pitiful boyhood and youth of Michael O'Donovan (Frank O'Connor is a pen name) in a wet, ruined, pious and oppressed Cork slum. Young Michael was heir to every misery that could afflict a boy: bad teeth, bad eyes, failure and constant canings at school, disgrace in his first wretched jobs, and the horror of a miserly, sententious and drunken father. James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork. Yet by some miracle...
...accentuate it; you see a beak, something else becomes an animal. It is a discovery trip, but you never know what you will find.'' To produce the intricately jeweled Eye of Silence, Ernst placed two wet painted canvases together, pulled them apart, let his fancy take over. At one time Ernst even experimented with a technique he called "oscillation.'' He pierced cans of paint and let them swing gently over the canvas. "Surprising lines drip upon the canvas, and the play of association then begins," he says. "Jackson Pollock made quite a nice adventure of this...
...Like Wet Hay. McClure's bubble-breathing experience was part of an experiment by the Boeing Airplane Co. in Seattle, which is seeking an oxygen sys| tem that will support human space travelers. Using live algae to recycle the precious oxygen in spaceships is a venerable idea, but it is far easier to accomplish in fiction than in fact. Many space-minded companies have added algologists to their staffs, but Boeing believes it is the first to keep a man alive for a full day on algal oxygen. The original air in McClure's tank would have become...
Using energy taken from the light, the algae absorbed the carbon dioxide given off by McClure's lungs and replaced it with oxygen. The air in the closed system smelled like wet hay, but it stayed rich in oxygen (21%), while its CO2 content never got higher than a harmless...