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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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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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use brushes andthe most useful are a large round Camels hair brush, amedium sized sable and a very small fine sable and two bristlebrushes, one small and the other about one-half inch wide. Thebristle brushes are necessary when you have to take the pig-ment off clean. When you have gotten your print to a satis-factory point, hang it up to dry. I have said that multiple guin printing was the simplest ofthe controlled processes for the pictorial worker to use andthis I believe to be a fact. However, for the very reasonthat it is capable of so much variation and control, thoughyou will find that if you will adopt the method I have en-deavored to outline you can produce prints at once, you willalso find that you will not necessarily get the finished resultjust as you may desire to have it. That, however, will shortlycome with practice and experience. Form a mental imageof the picture you desire to produce before you start andwork with that in mind all the time, and before you know it 132
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hJ I—I W H O H :^ W>^W w H .<?^-. 133 you will find the process your obedient servant and that youcan produce pictures instead of mere records of a pretty view.Birge Harrison says, Nature, however beautiful, is not art.Art is natural beauty interpreted through human tempera-ment, and Anderson says that The aim of the artist mustalways be to arouse some emotional mood or sentiment. Bearthese two sayings in mind. They are worth much thoughtand study and if upon consideration you find you agree withthem, then you will want a process to work with that willnot hamper you in the free expression of your ideas, sucha process is Multiple Gum printing and I recommend it toyour attention.

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