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Contents 9<br />

30 <strong>Photography</strong> on film<br />

Stripping film-revival <strong>of</strong> paper negatives-flexible film-celluloid and nitro-cellulose film<br />

-lawsuit Goodwin versus Eastman-prices <strong>of</strong> film.<br />

31 Hand, pocket, and detective cameras 4 rn<br />

New apparatus after I 880-change-box, magazine, roller-slide, and roll-film cameras-the<br />

Kodak-reflex cameras-pocket cameras-detective cameras-shutters-exposure meters.<br />

32 Push-button photography 422<br />

<strong>Photography</strong> made easy-amateur snapshooters-mass-production <strong>of</strong> apparatus, materials,<br />

and pictures-photography for the million-statistics concerning the increase in photographers-competition<br />

and undercutting causing a depression in pr<strong>of</strong>essional photography.<br />

33 <strong>Photography</strong> by artificial light 426<br />

Limelight-pyrotechnic compounds-magnesium light for photographing in caves, tunnels,<br />

mines, and in the Great Pyramid-flashlight powder and flash bulbs-Nadar's electric light<br />

pictures in the catacombs <strong>of</strong> Paris-electric light portrait studios-the fashion for evening<br />

photography-gas-light- 'Luxograph'.<br />

34 <strong>The</strong> photography <strong>of</strong> movement 433<br />

Action shots <strong>of</strong> everyday life-impact <strong>of</strong> instantaneous photography on the Impressionist<br />

painters-street scenes with traffic-photographic analysis <strong>of</strong> movement-Marey's chronography-Muybridge's<br />

investigations <strong>of</strong> animal locomotion-the 'rocking horse' fallacyinstruments<br />

demonstrating persistence <strong>of</strong> vision-Marey's chronophotography-cinematography-the<br />

work <strong>of</strong> Anschutz- multiple lens cameras-electric flash photography-the<br />

moving wheel experiment-photography <strong>of</strong> flying bullets and <strong>of</strong> splashes.<br />

35 Documentation 447<br />

Social documentation: Ponti's Venetian characters-Thomson's 'Street Life in London' -<br />

'China and Its People' and '<strong>The</strong> People <strong>of</strong>lndia' -Annan's photographic survey <strong>of</strong> Glasgow<br />

slums-sociological photographs <strong>of</strong> Riis and Hine-San Francisco's Chinatown-Paul<br />

Martin the first candid cameraman-'London by Night' -the National Photographic<br />

Record Association-Atget's documentation <strong>of</strong> Paris-Polar exploration.<br />

36 Press photography 452<br />

Attitude <strong>of</strong> newspapers to photography-topical photographs-the first photo-interviewphotographs<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Boer War-the first woman press photographer-press agencies-press<br />

cameras.<br />

3 7 Naturalistic photography<br />

Emerson's photographs <strong>of</strong> the Norfolk Broads-revival <strong>of</strong> landscape photography-s<strong>of</strong>t<br />

versus sharp-influence <strong>of</strong>lmpressionism-'Death <strong>of</strong> Naturalistic <strong>Photography</strong>' -the Linked<br />

Ring.<br />

<strong>The</strong> aesthetic movement<br />

Controlled printing processes bring 'freedom from photography' -fin de siecle photography<br />

extolled by art critics-exhibited in art museums-Shaw and photography-imitation<br />

paintings-art nouveau photography in France, Austria, Hamburg-the American Photo­<br />

Secession-Stieglitz's Gallery 291 and 'Camera Work'.<br />

VI<br />

SOME APPLICATIONS OF PHOTOGRAPHY<br />

39 Aerial photography<br />

505<br />

First aerial photograph- Nadar's balloon 'Le Geant' -first aerial photograph in America­<br />

Batut's kite photography-first photographs from an aeroplane-rocket photography.

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