Francisco Fernandez Trujillo Launch of the Liner Magallanes May 1, 1927 There's a scene at the beginning of James Cameron's Titanic where Leonardo DiCaprio has just won the luckiest hand of his life and runs to the steerage gangway to board the ill-fated ship. Once he's aboard, the scene pulls back to reveal the entire ship in all its grandeur. When I study this photo, I begin to see everything that Mr. Cameron's technicolor imitation of an elegant ocean liner didn't capture: immense pride, pure joy, genius engineering, hard sweat, and the many hours away from home and family that were part of the unseen costs of building this particular ship-all this and more, in simple shades of gray. -David Pollard