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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1918 (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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easy. I lived in one house in New York for ayear before I saw the composition awaiting me at the door-step. The result of my awakening was Easter Blizzard(Figure i), Page 235. I used one of the Sixth Avenue elevated stations twice aday for several months and then found Diagonals. Thisprint has been shown in more photographic exhibitions thanany other I have made. I have lived for several years in Greenwich Village, thatnotorious corner of Manhattan concerning which all NewYorkers know so much that isnt so. I have not photographedthe various Bohemian resorts like the Silver Doughnut, theBlack Beehive, the Yellow Potato, but Grove Court (Figure3), Kellys Alley and Minetta Place, which are not consideredimportant enough to be distinguished by signboards. Otherodd corners which have neither signboards nor names arerich in pictorial interest. Furthermore, I did not feel com-pelled to buy bad coffee, dispensed by a flat-footed femalewith her hair trimmed en casserole, to get atmosphere. 236
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Figure 2.DIAGONALS. Illustrating article Travel, by Arthur D. Chapman. 237 The novelists whose works Hve after them have written ofthings, people and places of which they were themselves apart. They were big enough to live their literature beforethe creative instinct had given it form, and then dissociatethemselves from what they had seen and experienced, totransmute it into wonderful tales for us who have not theirpowers of observation and literary expression. Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Patrick McGill are writerswho lived their writings. Rembrandt shows us much of thehomely life about him in the paintings he has left us. Pictorial photographers might give to the world prints ofthe greatest esthetic value and historical interest if they wouldbut analyze and see the pictures in their immediate surround-ings. There is too much searching after things strange andunusual in themselves, and not enough analysis and selectionof new viewpoints from which to record familiar things. Some pict

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