Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last October 28 a German astronomer, Dr. Karl Reinmuth of Heidelberg, noticed a faint white streak against the dark background of an astronomical photograph. A similar streak was discovered on a plate exposed at Johannesburg in South Africa. Such streaks reveal small, comparatively nearby objects moving across the sky at high speeds as contrasted with the relatively fixed positions of the stars. This wanderer, christened "Object Reinmuth 1937 U. B.," appeared to be several miles in diameter.* Its orbit was calculated from the streaks. Last week, after all danger was past, Johannesburg astronomers announced that in October the earth...
While Europe's merriest royal couple- Crown Princess Juliana, almost nine months pregnant, and Prince Bernhard, now in his sixth week of recovery from a, motor smashup-spent the holidays in adjoining rooms of an Amsterdam hospital, their friends received their royal Christmas card. It bore a photograph of Benno's wrecked Ford, beneath it a verse in their own English...
...more surprising but no more interesting to either business than Steichen's retirement was to his. During the past 15 years he has devoted a famous talent to the development of photography for the magazine market. His name was about the first to mean anything under a fashion photograph. Since 1923 his portraits of stage, screen, society, sporting people have made the most striking pages in Vogue and Vanity Fair...
Stieglitz had a right to his emotion, for he and Steichen together led the U. S. to take photography seriously before the War. At 23 Steichen. who had lived with Rodin in Paris and taken a famed, dramatic photograph of the sculptor, suggested and helped establish in 1902 Stieglitz's gallery at No. 291 Fifth Avenue. First U. S. showings of Rodin's sketches, in 1905, and Matisse's paintings, in 1908. were arranged for "291" by Steichen. Among the "Photo-Secessionists" who were then contributing to Stieglitz's magazine. Camera Work, Steichen did what...
With his new technical range. Steichen set out on a new career. His attempts to photograph the "essence" of flowers, insects, fruit are among the most subtle reproductions of textures ever made. A bubbling, generous, rather boyish man. Edward Steichen had no great struggle with himself over going commercial. Besides his job with Conde Nast he contracted to do advertising photographs exclusively for J. Walter Thompson Co. (agency for Pond's Cold Cream, Welch's Grape Juice. Simmons Mattresses, Jergens Lotion...