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Made History The Moment: He wrote that success in hand Camera work depends upon patience: waiting and watching for "the moment in which everything is in balance; that is, satisfies your eye."30 He also stated that he made his negatives expressly for enlargement, and rarely "used more than part of the original shot."'1 The selection of the final image was thus a twofold process, done partly at the moment of pressing the shutter, and partly in the darkroom, by cropping. For Winter on Fifth Avenue Stieglitz used less than half of the negative image.
Many years of analysis will be required before archaeologists are able to draw broad conclusions from the treasure found in the sacred well. But even as the artifacts were being brought to the surface and cataloged, some aspects of the strange Maya civilization became clearer.
The two stools that were recovered from the well made history the moment they were brought to the surface. They were the first pieces of ancient Maya furniture ever discovered. Although they were only about 18 in. (46 cm) high, like most Maya artifacts the stools were elaborately carved. Both had protruding serpent heads, and within each head was the face of a man.
ROBERTSON, James Craigie, Scottish clergyman : b. Aberdeen, Scotland, 1813 ; d. Canterbury, England, July 9, 1882. He was graduated from Cambridge in 1834, and took orders in the Anglican Church in 1836. He was made canon of Canterbury in 1859, and from 1867-1874 was professor of ecclesiastical history at King's College, London. He published How Shall We Conform to the Liturgy (1843) ; Church History (1852-1873) ; Plain Lectures on the Growth of Papal Power (1876) ; edited Heylyn's History of the Reformation (1849) ; Materials for the History of Archbishop Thomas Becket (1875-1882), etc. |
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