1925 | Photography
Photography
The Leica 35-millimeter camera invented by German master mechanic Oskar Bernack, 45, revolutionizes photography. Bernack joined E. Leitz G.m.b.H. of Wetzlar in 1911 and completed a prototype of the miniature instrument 2 years later, but the Great War halted his work. The camera takes a 36-frame film roll and has a lens that can be closed down to take pictures with great depth of field or opened for dim lighting conditions; fast and slow shutter speeds permit action pictures, and interchangeable lenses permit close-ups and telephotography (see "candid camera," 1930; Nikon, 1948).
Photograph: Country Girls by August Sander; The Widow Watson by Oregon-born New York Journal photographer Consuelo Kanaga, 31, shows a tubercular woman and her 12-year-old son living in a damp basement apartment.