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Bought A Camera: Dealers in building materials and manufacturers of home appliances will become customers for your pictures later,for advertising purposes, but not until you've progressed to the point where your work is appearing in the magazines and the home sections of newspapers. Then these buyers will come to you and pay you excellent rates. For that reason, keep the magazines in mind, and whenever you photograph a particularly striking home, let the editors see your pictures. Not only will the magazines add nobly to your income, but they'll give you also the best advertising you can get when they print your pictures.
Your equipment for this work must meet certain rigid standards but will not be as expensive as you might think. Your entire outfit can be bought for about the price of a good miniature. The view Camera is absolutely a must. No other Camera will do the job as well. The prime advantage of the view Camera for architectural work is its ability, through use of the rising front, and other movements, to make vertical lines register as parallels on the negative, rather than converging as they recede upward from the Camera level, the way they really do as seen by the eye. The various swings and tilts of the view Camera are a great convenience.
Stieglitz took up photography in Germany, where he had gone in 1881 at the age of seventeen to study mechanical engineering. While a student at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin he bought a Camera he saw in a shop window (it seemed, he later recollected, to have been waiting for him by predestination) and he enrolled in the course in photography at the Hochschule given by Hermann Wilhelm Vogel.
To choose which hand Camera to purchase was a problem that H. P. Robinson solved by lot. "I put the names separate pieces of paper, of what appeared to me to be out 500 species of hand-cameras, into a hat, and got a ild to draw one out and bought that one. This was a eat saving. I am saved the trouble and worse of looking er a thousand more or less different ways of doing the ne thing." |
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