The New Yorker, March 9 , 1935P. 15 I ran across a dim photograph of him the other day, going through some old things.
By James Thurber The New Yorker, March 9 , 1935P. 15 I ran across a dim photograph of him the other day, going through some old things.
Candlelight reflects from the decorations on the wall: dim photographs of jazz legends from days gone by, odd sections of brass instruments oxidized by years of smoky air.
Because the show aired in the days before videotape, David had never gotten a copy of it, and had only seen his appearance in a series of dim photographs his father had shot by pointing his still camera at the television screen in the family living room.
Seen on the monitor, the image has a primal iconic beauty, like a dim grainy photograph of a distant planet.
The dim, grainy photograph is not the best he has ever taken with a president, Joseph C. Wilson IV said, glancing at a picture of himself with President George H. W. Bush, taken in January 1991, two days before the start of the Persian Gulf war.
The room is cool and dim, with photographs in frames on both sides of the bed.
"Gypsy Dancing," a dim sepia 1901 photograph by the painter Pierre Bonnard — remarkable just because of who took the picture — catches the easy arc of a dancer's arm.
His career as a freelance photographer began in 1928, when he bought an Ermanox, one of the first miniature cameras equipped with a high-speed lens, which enabled him to photograph in dim light.
Take note of the glare from the unshielded exterior lighting of the Montauk Point lighthouse (not the light in the tower, which by comparison looks dim) in the night photograph accompanying your May 8 article "Beacons of the Past, and Present".
In one display case is a panorama of the cultural life that went on even as Leningrad's physical life dimmed and guttered: a photograph of an orchestra, an accordion, a copy of "Eugene Onegin," handbooks of knitting and embroidery.
