Excerpt from How to Make Pictures: Easy Lessons for the Amateur Photographer
For many years amateur photography has been held in high estimation throughout Great Britain, as a means of recre ation by men eminent in the law, in literature, and in science. The introduction into America of gelatine plates made possible the production of the highest class pictures through the medium of an outfit so light in weight that many of the fair sex have become expert in its use. More recreation combined with invigorating exercise is needed in this country, and amateur photography presents the highest claim for consider ation, as it is pleasant, educating and health giving, without the danger of over exertion which attend many forms of out-door exercise. It is a sure cure for mental weariness, and no one, whether young or old, who has an artistic’appreciation of the beautiful while sauntering through green fields or by the river side with the eye alert for the picturesque, ever discovering, comparing and admiring, can fail to be interested in the prac tice of this refined accomplishment. It aids the student in the study of botany, mineralogy, and what not? And enables him to make comparison with others separated from him by distance.
Wide-awake correspondents and authors now enclose with their manuscript and send to the publisher photographic prints or negativesfrom which engravings are made for the illustra tion of their articles or stories. To - day the best magazines and dailies have their artist on the spot, equipped with a photographic outfit. Renowned artists with a camera which looks like a hand-satchel, photograph without exciting the sus picion of the unconscious subject, the beautiful, quaint, or re pulsive features which, in due time, will be copied on canvas. There are many who are connmsseurs of art; artists they would be, but cannot, as not even the pencil will do their bid ding. Commend to them the camera, which will treasure what they longed to be able to represent. Similarly equip ped the detective is more than ever to be feared by the crim inal. Architects, manufacturers, real estate or insurance agents, and men engaged in other branches of business em ploy the Camera for a variety of purposes.
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