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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1914 (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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BESS. Figure 2. interested in the so-called Tuzzygraph style of work (or soit was called by a professional friend who did not admire it)and, of course, became ambitious along that line. In drawing class I had learned to see things in masses, andto look for forms rather than detail. In the study of com-position my teacher told me that good balance was obtainedby opposing in their proper relationship forms, or masses oflight and shade, or of color. I had also learned somethingabout subduing the distant planes into more or less obscure 140
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CHILD PORTRAIT. J. C. Strauss. masses, or in color to do so by introducing misty blue andpurple in order to introduce atmosphere. That, of course,gave the picture depth and the feeling of distance. All ofthese ideas made the product of my R. R. lens rather unsatis-factory from an artistic standpoint, and induced me to studyhow I might obtain the soft artistic effects such as I saw re-produced in the magazines. I tried racking my R. R. lens out of focus and made a fewstudies. I did not like the effect. It was not the kind ofsoftness I desired. I simmered them down some by printingthrough tissue paper, and such things, but that still didnt givethe result. Just at that time a friend gave me an old enlarg-ing box and led by my curiosity I took it to pieces, presumablyto see what it was made of. Inside of it I found a simpleconvex lens an inch and a half in diameter which I discoveredwould form an image if held between eight and nine inchesfrom a white cardboard. The idea naturally occurre

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