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OF the twenty-nine literary communications to this ‘Annual’, we note specially Dr. Wightman's discourse on “Light and Matter”, in which he traces the history of the subject and describes the theories at present held, and Dr. Maximilian Toch's “Scientific Photography of Oil Paintings”. Dr. Toch demonstrates by examples that experts cannot judge of the condition of a painting from a photograph of it, “because it depends entirely upon how the photograph was taken as to whether the picture appears good or not”. He gives some of the results of his prolonged experience. Mr. Neblette, as in previous years, contributes a review of the progress in photography for the past year. The very large number of formulae given are for the most part set forth in convenient tables, which save space and facilitate reference and comparison. As the illustrations claim to be pictorial, we hesitate to remark upon them; but the under-exposure in many cases, and in some a slaty fog that covers the whole and is particularly conspicuous by artificial light, do not commend themselves to us as good photography.
The American Annual of Photography, 1931.
Vol. 45. Frank R. Fraprie. Pp. 292 + Ad. 64. (Boston, Mass.: The American Photographic Publishing Co.; London: Sands, Hunter and Co., Ltd., 1930.) Paper, 7s. 6d.; cloth, 10s. 6d.
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The American Annual of Photography, 1931 . Nature 127, 196 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127196c0
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