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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1917 (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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ve, heavy, elaborateand extremely efficient—the whole camera revolves, while aroll of film unrolls over a slit in the inside of the instrument.These Cirkut instruments, as they are called, will make pic-tures of impossibly large and expensive lengths. They are adelight to play with—if someone else buys the films and paper. The amateurs very own panoramic instrument, however,he is taught to be that variety of kodak called panoram. Inthese the lens, not the instrument itself, makes a partial revo-lution,- thus wiping the image on the film, in the wayfamiliar to most beginners. But so far as I am aware, no one has yet issued a set ofinstructions that no instrument is better for the making ofwater scenes than these same panorams. Not view instru-ment, not speed camera, not stand instrument nor pocketkodak, can really compete with the panoram as a maker ofwater-views. There are half a dozen ways of proving it, but perhaps aglance at the accompanying little pictures—collected from 142
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CHILD PORTRAIT. SIDNEY V. WEBB. 143 everywhere and submitted entirely as attractive water pictureswith no thought whatever that they are masterpieces, is theeasiest. However, there is more than visual proof. There is a reasonwhy a panoramic picture of a water scene is the most attrac-tive presentation it can have. That reason is so simple it hardly needs telling. It is anancient art principle that the shape of the view—the pictureseen through its margins or its frame—must bear a definiterelation to the view itself. For instance, no picture whichdemands any consideration as artistic can have an equal ex-panse above and below the horizon line. It can have twothirds or three fourths sky—if the sky is beautiful enough toneed so much, as one third or fourth foreground. Or it canhave the majority of its interest below the horizon line. Butit cannot have an equal division. Take any of the severallittle pictures shown in connection with this story and add—inimagination—enough sky to

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