Identifier: architectenginee6220sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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omplete as if you were quite unaware that the cornerwere already passed. After all, suppose you do have to proceed another blockto turn about, who knows but that that block may contain some priceless, or atleast valuable, architectural pearl ? There will be plenty of rest for the driverwhile you set up the camera and hunt favorable points of view. Sometimes you 48 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER discover in the morning a composition which must be revisited for an afternoonsun, or you may happen in the afternoon upon something which should havebeen photographed with morning Hght. Then there are piquant uncertaintiesas to what you will get when the pictures are developed. (I have often won-dered if a practical certainty as to how things are going to turn out must notdeprive the professional photographer of much of the zest of adventure.) Pic-tures play such unexpected tricks. Sometimes things in which you had shownthe keenest delight fail lamentably to register on the plate so much as a sug-
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HOUSE FOR MR. H. C. TAFT, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIABakewell & Brown, Architects gestion of the source of your interest. Even such accidents may be instructive.They set you to thinking on the problems of the inter-relation of pure form andits more evanescent accompaniments. Colors and textures and the impalpableaspects of environment are all realities, though not subject to photographicrepresentation. It was, in fact, in just this happy-go-lucky manner that the collection ofdomestic architecture here illustrated was gathered together. All of the workis from the cities on the east shore of San Francisco bay. It was decided toshow only houses of small or moderate size, of fairly recent construction, andin any case to exclude work previously published or well known. Outside of THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 49 these limitations, the only principle of selection was that a jury consisting ofthe author and the editor happened along at the right time to take a picture, andfelt moved* to do so. Even

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