Word: camera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Issue of Nov.111, p. 60. "If the hunted thing is in the middle of the picture it is killed.'5 From your description of the camera gun, the quoted statement may account for numerous alibis and limited bags. In wing shooting, the gun is never aimed directly at the object to be struck, except on the rare occasion of a straightaway bird, neither rising nor falling. For cross flight at 40 yards distance, it would be necessary to back that goose eight feet...
...greatest portrait of her boss which she had ever seen. When she showed it to him, he declared he had never seen it before, authorized her to buy it. She made a bid of $5,000 to famed pioneer Photographer Alfred Stieglitz (TIME, Feb. 25), then editor of Camera Work, who owned the print. He refused. She then begged Photographer Steichen for another print. For three years he too refused...
Photographer Steichen was born in Milwaukee in 1879, son of a copper miner and a milliner. His boyhood was spent doing odd jobs. He was the first bicycle messenger in Milwaukee. Because he liked to draw and had bought a camera with his savings, he was apprenticed at 15 to American Lithographing Co., where, for three dollars a week, he washed spittoons, swept floors. Soon he was drawing advertisements. Most famed was his large poster of a voluptuously reclining lady with the legend, "Cascarets; they work while you sleep...
...Pacific Oceans have been photographed from the air hundreds of times. As seen from a window of the Graf Zeppelin they are not any more exciting than they have been in the past. Only a sense of the topical connection of these particular scenes and the unlikelihood that a camera could go around the world in a dirigible without finding anything interesting keeps you watching till the end. Apparently the unlikely has happened. There is a synchronized sound accompaniment, but that was put in at the studio. Best shot: one of the crew crawling out along the hull...
...dialog adaptation of a six-year-old picture built around the legend that there is an island in the Sargasso Sea composed of wrecked hulls. Action gets going around three survivors of the latest wreck?a girl, a man convicted of murder, a comedy detective. Occasionally effective camera work fails to make up for stolid sequences of dialog explaining the locale, or for the pathetic struggle between the hero and the scav- engers who live on the lost ships. Silliest shot: the super-scavenger being ceremoniously married to the unconscious body of the heroine...