The American annual of photography . rticles instructing how to make new apparatus, howto adapt old photographic appliances to new uses, how to savemoney when making photographs, how to obtain new effects,how to do any practical thing useful to the photographer—such as that is what is wanted. The editors of these maga-zines like live and interesting informative articles by personswho know from experience whereof they write. Three years of experience in writing for photographic maga-zines has taught me one vital thing: if you are interested in thepractical phases of photography, write practical
The American annual of photography . rticles instructing how to make new apparatus, howto adapt old photographic appliances to new uses, how to savemoney when making photographs, how to obtain new effects,how to do any practical thing useful to the photographer—such as that is what is wanted. The editors of these maga-zines like live and interesting informative articles by personswho know from experience whereof they write. Three years of experience in writing for photographic maga-zines has taught me one vital thing: if you are interested in thepractical phases of photography, write practical articles, andnot essays on pictorial composition; and if you are artisticallyinclined to accept photography as a new means of pictorialexpression, write articles that consider the art of photography,and not any telling how to make enlarging-cameras or ruby-lamps. (These two subjects, by the way, have been over-worked.) William S. Davis, who is one of the most frequentcontributors to photographic magazines, is by profession an 232. WHENCE AND WHITHER. Louis J. Steele. artist, so he logically writes articles from a pictorial stand-point ; whereas I, having done commercial and illustrative andpress work, write wholly from the practical angle. It is neces-sary to write of the things on your own side of the fence. Following is a list of prominent photographic publications,with the needs of each outlined, with a list of typical titles fromsome, and with perhaps a word or two here and there of per-sonal observation. Certain magazines such as Abels Photo-graphic Weekly (Cleveland) and the Bulletin of Photography(Philadelphia) use articles of interest to professional pho-tographers only. American Photography, 428 Newbury Street, Boston,Mass. Frank R. Fraprie, Editor, Arthur Hammond, Asso-ciate Editor. Monthly. This magazine uses articles treatingalmost every phase of photography. Its needs, like those ofother photographic magazines, are so general in its line thatit seems no one sort
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