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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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and a lens which looks like across between a French 75 shell and a thermos bottle. Really, its nothing . . . look at the artist. He has to carry an easel and canvass and paints and brushes and a camp stool,and when he gets where he is going he has to spend all after-noon at the job, and then he doesn't get anything, much.While we . . . say, how is that ? Look at that stream, and those overhanging trees; man, I know you are hot, but why stop to mop your face when you can look at a landscape like that. Now, do you set up the tripod, and Ill give you a lift with the camera, and then you focus and Ill prepare the plates. You see, I'm willing to do the hot work. Sticking head and shoulders into the little dark-room, and being all fastened in with a tight cloth bag tied around my waist, is hot,but who minds a little discomfort like that? The kerosene dark-room lamp is hot and smelly, too . . . you didn't forget to bring the kerosene, did you? I dare say I speak in a somewhat smothered voice, due to 120
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BETH BERI AS THE GYPSY. Louis Fleckenstein. my being all prisoned up. You pretty nearly ready? 1 am ... I come out, somewhat hot and little disheveled. But my precious wet plate is very wet indeed, and you are all ready,thank goodness, and so we proceed to make the picture, giving several seconds exposure. Then I wish on you the job of developing the plate. You find it hot and smelly and muggy in there, but as you are progressing you begin to shout at me:. . . Hi, Carl. This is a wonderful negative. Most remark-able detail and absolutely perfect exposure ... It is true. We have made a perfectly bully negative. And it has only taken us an hour or so of light, easy work. All we have to do is to pack up the outfit and move it some more dusty miles, and prepare another wet plate and set up and take down a nice little light camera which weighs a ton at the end of the trip, and when we come home in the evening well have three or four wonderful pictures. Look at that drawing, you say. What about your

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