How to Make Good Pictures: The Kodak Manual for Amateur Photographers.
Kodak House, Kingsway, London WC2, 1942 Edition.
When this edition was published, Kodak had released the Target BROWNIE Six-16 and the Six-20 in 1941. Kodacolor Film for print was introduced in 1942. There are two colour images in this book, or one page. One is of a woman waterskiing, a pretty lazy, crazy, hazy days of summer type of thing to be doing in 1942, all things considered.
When thinking about how to make a good picture, and then how to take a good picture of a picture, I wondered which is better — the representation that gives the viewer the sense of the book, or the image that is blown up, blurred and aspires to be something else?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/radioripster/3296498860/ – Noticed this person gives 1946 as the date of production, but I got the 1942 date from Kodak’s website…
Status: A) Jealous. I want to own this Brownie Target Six-20.
B) Consider re-photographing favourite images from this book, following the tips.
Kill-ratio: 26: 4 /~6:1
Alt-title: Untitled Tome No. 260 For Being A Better Person.
OT post on Untitled/Alt-Titled stuff.
I like the question you’ve raised. We need both, (but you already know that). 🙂
Yup:)
nice one! i still own my very first camera from 50 years ago: a kodak brownie starflex (with flash 🙂
to myself: it is a starlet…
Wow! That’s quite special.
Like the rephotographed image very much; a nice shock in the context of the post. I’d love to see more.
Thanks Richard. Glad you like it. It’s funny how this blogging process opens up potential directions for new projects. Perhaps everything I do in 2013 will be a sub-category from this blog:)