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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1912 (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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some instances.To show its shape and the way the stones were laid has beenmy aim rather than what might be termed an artistic pres-entation of the subject, based upon the laws which governsuch subjects. Probably I have been wrong, but the pictureshave been many times praised and wherever they are exhibitedthey attract much attention. This story is not told in a spirit of egotism. It is plainfact which can be verified. I relate it here as a suggestionfor the amateur who may wonder what is worth while photo-graphing near him. Perhaps he has no Dutch houses, but hemay live in a region where Indians once roamed, for example,and their remains or traditional camping places may bematters of local knowledge. If so, here is an opportunity todo some work worth while. It may be he lives in a region of waterfalls, or somesimilar wonder of nature. If so, then he has an opportunityto depict some of the most marvelous beauties in all nature.And so one might go through the list. There is something 78
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AFTER THE RAIN. RUDOLPH EICKEMEYER. everywhere that is different from what it is somewhere else.There lies the amateurs opportunity. Of course I have done a great deal besides this. I havemore than one thousand negatives made on all sizes of filmsand plates. I have now four different sized cameras andKodaks, all of which I use in one way or another. And Ihave an enlarging outfit to make my small pictures the sizeI want if they prove worth while. I am not going to tell you about the technical methods Ifollow. They are not essentially different from anyone else,excepting I use tanks almost exclusively for developing.Probably most of my negatives are 5 x 7, or No 3A Kodak.These I find most reliable and the shape of the pictures aresatisfactory. One more thing I want to mention; I have made what maybe termed a photographic record of the industries of mycounty. In one way or another I have made negativesillustrating the principal operations in all the industries withinreach. I could, upon

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