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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1911 (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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aphing, still endless minortroubles will arise which make your picture unsatisfactory andnot quite to your liking. One often longs to get a natural pic-ture of the varied groups of strange peope, strangely dressed,that one sees in traveling. Yet how impossible this seemswithout spending hours of time and trouble and making your-self disagreeable and unpleasant to the simple natives whom youwish to depict. The appearance of an ordinary camera at oncechanges natural charm to affected or self-conscious poses, ordissolves ones chances of a picture for good and all. In traveling in the Far East, it is especially difficult when thecrowd is actually antagonistic to being photographed, eitherfrom religious scruples, from superstition, or from fear. Forinstance, it seems almost impossible to take a snap-shot of aChinaman, for he fears the camera as we should the Devil, anda snap-shot of a Chinawoman is almost out of the question.We have visited two other countries where the people are par- 260
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A CHINAWOMAN. WALTER J. CLUTTERBUCK. ticiilarly averse to being photographed, viz: the Lu-Chu Islandsin the North Pacific, and Kashmir. In the latter, no respect-able young woman would ever remain where the Europeaneye could behold her face. In the Lu-Chus, a European faceand European clothes were such a novelty that, although >oumight be stared at by every native, male and female, in theIsland, it seemed to be always from behind a door or screen,and photographing them was an impossibility.

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