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Born in Ghent in Flemish Belgium 76 years ago, young Leo became an ardent photographer. At night, when his trusting father thought he was studying, Leo was busy in his darkroom. When he tried out the indelible properties of silver nitrate on a schoolmate's face, the other boy got panicky and went to a doctor, who suggested hydrochloric acid as a remover. The results were painful. Haled before a school board, Baekeland put some silver nitrate on his own skin, quickly and harmlessly removed it with another chemical...
Photographic work should appeal to the numerous camera fans in '42 and '43. A complete darkroom in the building is available for any type of in the building is available for any tube of picture processing and candidates are assigned to take everything from ordinary posed how to "scoop" photography. In addition, a thorough training in the technique of photography is available for men who have never before held a comera...
...snow cruiser is an automotive dreadnaught 55 ft. long, designed and built by Chicago's Armour Institute at a cost of $150,000. It has a machine shop and a photographic darkroom, can carry an airplane on its back. Rolling on four retractable, rubber-tired wheels ten feet in diameter, it cruises at 10 m.p.h. (top speed 25 m.p.h.), can straddle and cross crevasses 15 ft. wide...
...consists in making visual records. This is a long-term point of view, involving the fact that photographs like Eugene Atget's of Paris become poignant to most people only gradually, as years pass and streets vanish. Berenice Abbott from Springfield, Ohio, learned photography in Paris in the darkroom of Stylist Man Ray. Returning to Manhattan in 1929, she was overwhelmed with a desire to document "the whole crazy city...
...Some provisions: five-day, 40-hour week, with equal time off for overtime; severance pay of one and one-half week's peak salary for each six months of service up to a maximum of $5,000. Minimum wages: $20 a week for untrained office boys; $35 for darkroom assistants, $45 for cataloguers, $50 for proofreaders, $55 for film handlers (negative matchers, film librarians, etc.), $65 for draftsmen, $75 for photographers, film editors, writers, etc. Like the U. P. and Mirror contracts, it included no provision for Guild Shop. The TIME Inc. contract was the Guild's biggest...