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Illustrations

Contents

PAINTING WITH LIGHT

THE YEAR'S PROGRESS

American Photographers Set the Pace

The Soft Focus Lens

No One Lens Is Sufficient

Softness Desirable, Not Fuzziness

Professional Photography Influenced by that of the Pictorialist

The Popular Mediums

Color Photography

The “Secret” Is the Artist

Hand Work vs. Straight Prints

Commercial Possibilities for Pictorial Work

Airplane Photography

Elaborate Apparatus Not Always Necessary

How Mr. White Judges a Photograph

Motion Pictures and the Soft Focus Lens

Is Photography to Remain a Black and White Art?

Dr. Chaffee Tells How He Makes Bromoils—With Reservations

Evaded the Statute, but Made a Picture

A Few Beliefs of a Negative Tendency

Photographing on a Rainy Day

How a “Rembrandt” Was Made

He Thought She Was Crazy

The Last of the Square Riggers

As to Certain Soft Focus Lenses

Mr. Latimer Expresses His Views Somewhat at Length

Night Pictures in the Streets

How to “Work Up” a Negative

An Experience with a Railway Detective

From a “Bathroom” Expert

Mr. White's Method with Children

Dragging a View Camera Through the Sands