Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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THIS year's U.S. Camera has its quota of unaesthetic nudes, meaningless pattern designs, and pretty pictures, which constitute too large a part of the book; but after wading through it, there are several photographs which make it a worth-while volume--top honors going to Edward Steichen, Bradford Washburn, Martin Munkacsi, Dorothea Lange, and Edward Weston...
...case with so many modern American pictures, a large number of these prints suffer from the Life influence. Journalistic photography is attractive in a newsmagazine, but it is rarely documentary or artistic, and the pages of this spiral-bound U. S. Camera are crammed with the work of Life's staff or their imitators Nevertheless, it is heartening to record the absence of the so-called "arty" pictures of a few years back. Those remarkable results of the fusion of bad lenses, drastic retouching, abrasion processes, rough paper, and bromoil have finally been laughed out of exhibitions; it only remains...
...best features of the book is the listing in the appendix of photographer, camera film and paper used, but as usual, the least important ones are the most profusely annotated...