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A Century of Photos
OCTOBER 2001
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They're fun. They're quirky. And they're full of surprises. Now more than a century of adventures and photographic memories from the magazine's archive are just a click away.
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OCTOBER 2001
| Photograph by Pierre Daye |
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Bright Idea
The Cairo night was chased—for a moment—by the light of 6,500 flashbulbs on May 24, 1959. The illumination of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, part of a promotional event by the bulb manufacturer, Sylvania, was triggered with a series of synchronized circuits strung along 14 miles of wire. Preparations for the shot took more than a month; a team of 20 men made two sides of the ancient structure bristle with flashlamps attached to four-foot (1.2-meter) poles wedged between the limestone blocks.
This photograph was never before published in the magazine.
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