AJS Week 3

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2. Edward Steichen was born March 27, 1879, and died March 25, 1973. He was a photographer, painter and museum curator. Steichen met Alfred Stieglitz in 1900, was featured in Stieglitz's magazine Camera Work, and also designed the typeface for the magazine. Steichen tried out many different kinds of photography, from the military photography he took while serving in the army, to his photography for Vogue and Vanity Fair, to his photos of gowns in the French magazine Art et Décoration, which are considered to be among the first modern fashion photographs ever published. At one point Steichen was considered the most well known, and highest paid, photographer in the world. To add to his list of accomplishments, he was also the Director of the Department of Photography at New York City's Museum of Modern Art until 1962.

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A fish eye lens is a wide angle lens originally developed for use in meteorology to study cloud formations. For 35 mm film format, typical focal lengths of fisheye lenses are between 8 mm and 10 mm, and for digital cameras the focal length of "miniature" fisheye lenses can be as short as 1 to 2mm (so they are able to capture objects in a very wide view). Fish eye lenses achieve wide angles of view by forgoing a rectilinear, or straight,  image, opting instead for a special mapping, which gives the images their characteristic round appearance.