Identifier: americanannualof1918newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1918 (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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do that thing than he who has no knowledge of co-ordination ; for organization is but an intelligent provision ofwhat may be expected of you at a given opportunity. Suppose then, that with my camera I have trained my mindand eye to see the trivialties of life. This would, of course,interest the trivial. Well, there comes to me one day an op-portunity to make a series of important prints, the successof which would enhance the value of photography. I haveskill and a good technique, then why should I not grasp thismy opportunity ? I begin the work, little thinking that my con-tinued indulgence in trivialties would ever disqualify me;until at the completion of my task I discover that my effortsat serious work have become a tragedy, and that as I hadnever organized my mind to see and to feel the finer anddeeper things of life I have elected myself to a negativeprinciple. That is why the finer uses of the camera can never beapplied by pictorialists who imitate the ruder element of news- 246
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UNDER THE ELEVATED RAILROAD. EDWARD R. DICKSON. 247 paper photographers with minds so filled with the smaller,funnier side of life, that when a big problem looms upon themthey are incapable of feeling its bigness, or rising to the mag-nitude of the task before them. The finer uses of the camera can never be consistentlyapplied by the pictorialist of superficial brilliancy who nevercompletes his apprenticeship which would make him eligibleto enter upon a stage of nobler development. The finer uses of the camera are those which may be em-ployed to express ones self, and to express ones self theremust be self-development and a humility of spirit which canonly be the product of fine growth. The finer uses of the camera are those which may be usedto contribute toward the progress of photography, whetherthis be in the dark-room, studio or afield. And so you see, the finer uses of the camera may be ex-pressed in one word ^motive, for motive centers in the indi-vidual, and if the individual i

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