Sentence examples for magnesium flash of from inspiring English sources
On the verge of a kill, however, he is distracted, possibly by the magnesium flash of a photographer (images being dangerous weapons, as fairy tales remind us), and gravely gored.
Several special shots — of the young ham seeing his destiny play out in a grimy mirror that he turns into his visionary cameo, of his reappearance through a view camera's magnesium flash, of a transcendent return of the aged mentor at a moment of crisis — embed themselves in the visual imagination as deeply as in the moral one.
Making use of newly invented magnesium flash powder, he brought the brilliant light of a new medium to bear on a netherworld that had never been photographically recorded.
His first sizable triumph was a fuse to ignite the magnesium flash powder used by photographer which he invented at the age of eighteen.
There are photos from the turn of the last century by George Shiras, who took some of the earliest nighttime wildlife pictures, using a tripwire hooked to a magnesium flash and to his camera's shutter.
Riis was the Danish-born police reporter who in the late 1880s brought magnesium-flash photography into some of the darkest and most troubled spots in New York City — the tenements near Mulberry Bend, where Columbus Park now stands.
In a couple of years, he would discover a new technique of using magnesium to create flashes of light for photographic purposes, making it possible to give the public a glimpse of the dark basements that slum dwellers crowded into.
IT WAS a flash of sporting brilliance.
