Identifier: americanannualof36newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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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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ear, a place where it can easily be made a source of pleasureand profit, that place is the Zoological Park. There is also a sporting element attached to this branch ofphotography that is particularly appealing to every red-bloodedindividual. Scattered throughout this broad land of ours are a numberof excellent Zoological Parks of which we can well be proud.The largest and most representative, perhaps, is the one atBronx Park, New York City, but the amateur photographerwho Lspires to take pictures here is doomed to disappointment.As one is about to pass through the turnstile at the entrancehe is greeted with a conspicuous sign giving notice that Nocameras are allowed. One is at a loss to understand just why the managementpersists in this policy of prohibiting the use of cameras, inspite of vigorous protests, but, unfortunately for us, the factremains that they do. My impression is that the main purpose of a zoologicalcollection is an educational one; to further the study of natural 100
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Tor history and to enable the lover of birds and animals to becomebetter acquainted with representative foreign and domesticspecies. One would think if this were really the case, every-thing would be done to encourage an interest in this direction,and what better means is there for furthering this interestthan that which the camera affords of making lastingphotographic records of the denizens of the Zoo. I have been to the Bronx Park Zoo many times, but havealways come away disappointed at not being able to use thecamera. Of course, small cameras are smuggled in andexposures made surreptitiously with them, but this kind ofphotographic work is not satisfactory, and one does not getany real pleasure from it. If the reason for prohibiting the cameras is a mercenaryone, (and it is the only one I can think of), why not chargea nominal fee, say fifty cents, for a permit to take pictures?This would be willingly paid by serious workers, and therevenue derived would more than offset any loss o

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