Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MISS BENNETT'S MUCH ADVERTISED THIGHS, A LIFE-SIZED PHOTOGRAPH OF HER WAS IN COURT BESIDE THE PORTRAIT MAKING IT OBVIOUS THAT THEY HAD UNDERGONE A FLATTERING REDUCTION IN MY PORTRAIT...
TIME herewith publishes a photograph of the Pogany portrait...
...producers of Having Wonderful Time were not forced to change: the author's. Given the job of killing many of his own best lines, Author Kober did so with purposeful objectivity. He also supplied new ones which were in many cases even better. Consequently, like an enlarged photograph which brings out virtues unsuspected in its smaller original, the cinema version of Having Wonderful Time is a kind of streamlined folk comedy, hilarious not because its characters are Jewish but because they are human...
...scientist walked out into a Baltimore park to take a picture. His fertile brain and nimble hands had produced a "fisheye lens," a hollow hemisphere of glass filled with liquid, which would focus a sweep of 180° on one plate. He decided to place himself beneath a bridge, photograph the underside of the bridge's arch from horizon to horizon. By the time he had finished setting up his mysterious-looking device, he had attracted a large crowd of gawpers. He snapped his picture, looked up with an expression of horror, cried...
...writings of Dane Coolidge have something of the flavor of an oldtimer's leisurely talk, in which personal reminiscences, anecdotes and tall tales are intermingled. A photographer of wild life long before candid cameras were invented, Coolidge wandered over Southwestern deserts, had the wit to pass up wild animals occasionally and photograph wild human beings instead. In 1903. when he was 30, his wanderings took him into the cattle country northeast of the Salt River Valley of Arizona, where he picked up some good stories, some better photographs. Arizona Cowboys is a belated record of his stay, a book...