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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1917 (1910s)

Blanche C. Hungerford  (–1944)
Alternative names	Blanche Hungerford; Blanche C. Hungerford Latimer; Blanche Hungerford Latimer; Blanche Latimer
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	1885 / circa 1889	1944
Location of birth	Baltimore
Authority file	: Q115830208

Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ich is less than the height of the building itself; avaluable property where space is limited as in the streets of atown. Figure 3, a general view of the University Chapel, was madewith a p.d. of 8 in. exp! 30 sec. Although the sun was in anunfavorable position the beautiful colored mosaic of the gableshows up remarkably well; in fact quite a little better than theresult the average tourist gets. Figure 4, another view of the chapel through the cloisterarches, p.d. 5 in. exp, 45 sees. This print demonstrates an-other remarkable property of the needlehole image. It will benoted that an unbacked plate was used, and the shadows showthat the bright sunlight was well ahead; and yet there is analmost entire absence of halation. Dr. DArcy Power in hismasterly monograph upon this subject lays special stress onthis quality, and shows a remarkable print of a plant in a potphotographed right in front of a window with a lace curtainintervening. The exposure was long, 10 min., yet the sash bar 222
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THROUGH THE CABLES OF BROOKLYN BRIDGE. BLANCHE C. HUNGERFORD, 223 comes out quite clear and the pattern of the curtain is beau-tifully defined against the strong light from outside. Figure 5. A close up view of the chapel entrance, p.d. 7 in.exp. i^ min. This is a good example of the perfect perspec-tive of the needlehole image under somewhat difficult circum-stances. If any one doubts the difficulty, let him just go outafter a subject of this nature with an ordinary equipment andjust a lens, and I think he will appreciate it to the full. By the way I would like to say that this Figure 5 makes aparticularly fine enlargement to 11 by 14 for framing. It hasbeen said that lensless negatives are not suitable for enlarge-ment. I think the same rule applies as with the orthodoxkind; some are eminently suitable and others are not. Thepeculiar soft definition of the needlehole image is certainlyno bar to successful enlargement, but rather in many cases anenhancing quality. It will be noticed

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