Word: eisenstaedt
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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Moreover, two standout photographers now strongly for realism made their first fame as "pictorial" artists. Alfred Eisenstaedt-the master of the sharp, meaningful portrait and the photographer who stirred U.S. enthusiasm for the Leica and other 35-mm. cameras-contributed an early picture of a ballet rehearsal that owes its mothlike softness and radiance to Degas' influence. Irving Penn's evocation of a midsummer nap harks back to a 15th century Venetian, Carlo Crivelli, who also used sharply focused flies to achieve a greater illusion of depth...