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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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have been afieldwith my view camera. I feel safe in assuming that hundredsof other enthusiasts have had the same sad story to tell onmany occasions. Perhaps a group of people in animated conversation makean appeal to your artistic instinct by the interested attitudewhich they unconsciously assume. An attempt to photographthem with a camera of any type but the reflecting one wouldbe immediately frustrated by the attention you would surelyattract. In either of the above instances, the Graflex is the remedy,as a few seconds work at any time will give you a record ofyour first impressions; and first impressions are in my casegenerally the best. To illustrate the superiority of the Graflex for this class ofwork, I submit two prints. The Tar Boiler (Figure i) was made at an instant whenthe subject did not know he was under observation, securinga natural position of the worker, and making a picture full ofinterest instead of the posed record generally secured withother types of cameras. 144
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be S JI—I o pq <H WH Again in Animal Photography the Graflex asserts itself.When they are grouped to your satisfaction, bing! you havethem, instead of having them move away just about the timeyou would be ready to press the bulb with an outfit on thetripod. My sheep study entitled Arcadia (Figure 2) was madeunder just such trying conditions during a cross country jauntwith a fellow enthusiast. On approaching an orchard weespied a few sheep grazing. The question at once was, Canwe approach near enough to secure a picture without frighten-ing them away ? Well, to make it worse a fence stood betweenus and the sheep. With cameras ready, we approached thefence carefully, and as carefully climbed over. I was allowednot more than five seconds for making the exposure when thesheep scampered away. I was unable to make another expo-sure in an hour, as they took fright whenever we approachedthem. In the few seconds I was allowed to make this pictureI was made a sworn friend of the Graflex f

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