Identifier: americanannualof1892newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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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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and anchors downhis higher perceptions. He can then produce a better portraitas well. In ideal work necessarily he must materialize histhoughts, however evanescent or intangible they may be, andthey must more or less be governed and partake of his ownphysical understanding. The operator has now everything ready. The light justlyarranged so as to give the best expression to his subject. Heproceeds to obtain the focus. It is not necessary for his sitterto be possessed of patience, nor is it required that he shall gazewith concentrated determination at a nail or spot on the wall;and, let the photographer say what he likes, the expression ofhis subject will not change. The operator can take his time,descant on the last base-ball match, or pass a few remarks onthe weather. When he is ready he exposes, packs up, andremarks that he will send proofs around the day after to-morrow ; and woe betide him if he retouches or otherwisemaltreats or beautifies the negatives. The prints will exposehim.
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Lieut.Karl Hiller, Photo. AT PLAY. Kurtz, N. Y., Eng. AND PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES ALMANAC. 199 Photography is frequently of direct use to the sculptor inhis work. In obtaining arrangements of drapery on the livingmodel—the folds of which will change and are destroyed whenthe model takes a rest and in the study of momentary actionsfrom living subjects, photographs are also of invaluable assist-ance in modeling post-mortem portraits. If only ideas couldbe caught and materialized on a negative, what a blessing itwould be to suffering and lazy humanity! How science wouldrejoice if a molecule could be photographed ! Even Kirvanaor Utopia negatives would be desirable. Alas! it requiressomething positive before a negative can be taken. The moon has been successfully invaded, but photographyhas still a few more worlds to conquer. J. Scott Hartley, Sc. A COSMOPOLITAN GALLERY OF PORTRAITS. I lately formed one of a small party of the London press,who were invited to a social meeting presided over b

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