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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first practical means to print photos on a newspaper page, called the halftone process, did not come into widespread use until the 1890s. Until then, most readers had to content themselves with engravings copied from photographs. Meanwhile, the bulky camera gear of the 19th century hardly lent itself to instant coverage. In the cumbersome wet-plate process, which became the norm in the mid-1850s, pictures were formed on a sheet of glass that had to be coated with an emulsion just before the exposure, then developed at once. Action shots were ruled out by the lengthy exposure times, several...
FOOTNOTE: *To vote for your favorite news photo in this issue, write to Photojournalism, P.O. Box 6000, Radio City Station, New York, N.Y. 10185. Give the page number and headline of the caption. Sometime after Dec. 15, 1989, we'll publish the results...
...personal statement by Carl Mydans, page...
...TIME Essay by Lance Morrow, page...
...threatened to crash, and then the earth in California quaked. That's the most disaster that American newspapers have had to play with since the Challenger explosion. And both of last week's stories included double coverage potential: the business and sports sections, respectively, got to echo the front page...