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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SELECTIONS FOR 1920 By DR. R. W. SHUFELDT Y private collection of negatives at this writingruns far up into the hundreds; and it is with nolittle pride that I can say that over seventy-fiveper cent, of them, or even more, have beenpublished. There are no films among them,while the dry plates are in three sizes—^five by eights, six and a half by eight and a half, and eight by tens; possibly there area few scattered five by sevens, less than half a dozen—not more. Prints have been made from all of these and filed away for use as occasion happens to require, and in going over these a few days ago, I selected half a dozen subjects, no one of which had ever been published before, while all of them hadbeen favorably commented upon by competent critics. Figure I, which I have entitled The Book of Fate, was made many years ago in my New York City studio, at the time I was pre-paring the illustrations for my work on Studies of the Human Form, a volume which is now out of print. The negative is 140
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:3 *T3 ^ o •. oo m ^ i-H a Us 141 an eight by ten, and the composition, posing, and making all entirely my own. Better to leave to those of imaginative minds to frame for themselves a story which this would fitly illustrate, than to tell .one here which might not appeal at all.In any event, there is sufficient in its make-up for a bit of romance, as the young reader is of pure Jewish stock, and was a model of mine for a long time- The skull is the skull of a murderer, whose body I purchased and dissected during my long course in the medical school; and, finally, the lamp was my study-lamp during my college days at Cornell, nearly half a century ago. As to the book itself—better leave it a matter of conjecture for future students of the picture. Throughout certain parts of the South, from Georgia to eastern Texas, we meet with an immense black grasshopper,with short red and black inner wings. It is known as the Lubber grasshopper, and its life-history is quite interesting.Years ago, when I collected

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