Robert Ruark
Robert Ruark was a big game hunter.
Ryuko Tsushin
Ryuko Tsushin was a Japanese magazine that focused on designer’s fashion and culture. It aimed to appeal to women with intellectual inquisitiveness.
Roe Ethridge
Roe Ethridge is a postmodernist commercial and art photographer, known for exploring the plastic nature of photography.
Reel-to-reel tape recorders
Reel-to-reel tape recorders is a form of magnetic tape audio recording.
Radical Software
Radical Software was a video journal started in 1970 in New York City.
Roger Caillois
Roger Caillois was a French intellectual.
Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev was a Russian ballet dancer.
Richard Sharpe Shaver
Richard Sharpe Shaver achieved notoriety in the years following World War II as the author of controversial stories which were printed in science fiction magazines wherein Shaver claimed that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that lived in caverns under the earth. The controversy stemmed from the fact that Shaver and his editor/publisher Ray Palmer claimed Shaver's writings, while presented in the guise of fiction, were fundamentally true.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian Bengali polymath. Had he been born in the West he would now be as revered as Shakespeare and Goethe, according to Ravi Shankar.
Revolver Photographique
The Revolver Photographique was manufactured in Paris, France in 1862. Brass pistol-shaped camera with scope, wooden pistol grip, but no barrel - the camera takes four 23mm diameter exposures in rapid succession on a 7.5 cm circular wet plate. Developed as one of the first sequential cameras to shoot planetary movements, the camera is seen as the precursor to the movie camera.