Identifier: americanannualof3334newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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SEEING AND FEELING By GUY SPENCER CLASS in photography, rambling along the coun-try-side in quest of atmosphere stopped in frontof a miniature water-fall. It was a modest streamof water making its way sedately down a barrenhill-side, apologetically washing over slippery and shiny stones, with never a sunbeam to play among its drops. One of the workers, evidently thinking a fall of water, no matter how unpretentious, must have artistic possibilities called out to the instructor:*Is this a picture or a record?*A record, came the reply, Pass on. And herein lies a difference in photography where one records what he sees, another expresses what he feels. In the old days photography was hampered by mechanical difficulties and perplexities; but with time have come such 82
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IN THE DOLOMITES. LOUIS J. STEELE. 83 appliances and processes as make of the modern lens an instru-ment of far-reaching adaptability. The photographer once having learned his craft is free todevote his energy to the attainment of the beautiful. Yet withthe same equipment, and a like environment, two workerswill achieve totally different results; not because one has abetter control of his medium, but by reason of the finer mani-festation of feeling. They look, let us say, upon a gnarledold tree, a blighted trunk upon a cursed root. Yet lifting itshuge bulk by a seeming determination, and sending a greenand leafy branch toward the sky. One views it simply as abent, old tree and thus depicts it. The other feels the deep,underlying mystery, the unseen battle with a destroying force.To him it typifies the struggle for life, and he so infuses hiswork with the poetry of his conception, that the onlooker,with emotions stirred, is induced to think and dream, so strongis its appeal. In portrai

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