International photographer (Jan-Dec 1941)

Record Details:

Title:
International photographer
Date:
Jan-Dec 1941
Publisher:
Hollywood : International Photographers of the Motion Picture Industry
Volume:
International photographer (Jan-Dec 1941)
Leaf #:
000306
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Technical Magazine
Collection:
Technical Journals
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
International Photographer, published by the Hollywood local of the film industry union for cameramen and camera operators, reported news of the arts and crafts of the motion picture, with an emphasis on cinematography. -- David Pierce, 2011/2013
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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ThEy must be shARp By James N. Doolittle While I am not willing to admit that every time I open my mouth somebody puts his foot in it, I will allow that I have overlooked many splendid opportunities of keeping quiet. So it happened that, offering a few innocent words in review of a recent photographic salon, I made certain cracks about "Sharp Photography." Little escaping the searching eyes of our editors, I now find myself asked to defend the point and go into a little further detail. Lest the circumstances put me in a position of making loosely-guarded statements, I might as well go all the way, even at the risk of sponsoring a revolutionary movement, and alibi myself as best I may. A sieve-like memory retains but a fragmentary recollection of the passages referred to but the substance was, "A picture is not necessarily good because it is sharp." I might have been more expansive and claimed, "A picture is no good unless it is sharp." Having neglected the chance of a lifetime, I hereby depose and so state! We needn't go too far back in the history of photography to recall the days when, after years of struggle, science was able to produce objectives capable of ren Compare the two portraits. The upper was produced in London Salon of Pictorial Photography in 1915, while the lower is a recent portrait of Dorothy Coiningore.