George W. Adams - Art Conservator

© The Washington Post

"A self-trained engineer with a deep appreciation for art, Mr. Adams looked at the wall beneath the plaster and found deteriorating masonry in numerous areas. He designed a system to test the strength of the mortar and walls and to detect and digitally map defects without damaging the art, which is painted directly on the mortar, in the age-old style of frescoes. Then he invented a system to inject material that would shore up the walls...

...In 1988, he turned to conservation of fine art, forming a company with his wife. Together, they restored the Jules Guerin murals in the Lincoln Memorial, the Works Progress Administration paintings at the Departments of Justice and Interior, and murals at Fisk University in Nashville, for which they won a National Trust for Historic Preservation Award. " - Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post, April 12, 2009

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Jack Cardiff, Cinematographer

Jack Cardiff

' Martin Scorsese once described Jack Cardiff, 94, the Academy Award-winning cinematographer who died April 22 in his native England, as being able to "paint with the camera."

"Years ago," he told a reporter, "when I was working with Powell and Pressburger, or Hitchcock, Huston, King Vidor, we'd prepare a scene and they'd say: 'Jack, get an effect of poverty here, or joy or happiness here. I don't know how you'll do it, but that's what I want.'

"Directors today have been to film schools," he added. "They've taken on a whole lot of knowledge about labs, lighting and film stock. It's never happened to me, but they'll say: 'I want the new Fuji, or the new Kodak, try to get three-quarters back light on this scene.' They'll tell a cameraman the sort of lighting they want, which is pretty horrifying in a way."

Jack Cardiff won an Oscar for "Black Narcissus" and an honorary Oscar as "one of the greatest visual artists ever to work in film." '

- Adam Bernstein, The Washington Post, April 23, 2009

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