The Photogram Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...which appear in the pages of the same number. Some of the vignetted portraits, especially those illustrative of "The Men who make The Engraver ami Printer" and the portrait of George H. Benedict, are extremely fine, and well worth the study of all English halftone workers. The third edition of "The Science and Practice of Photography," by Chapman Jones, F.I.C., F.C.S., has been sent to us by Iliffe & Son, the publisher.. The book (i) is already well known to most photographers, and it has long been recognised as a standard work upon photography. The progress of the last three or four years has rendered it necessary to make many alterations in the present volume. It has therefore been revised throughout, and several new chapters have been added to it, while some of the old ones have been re-arranged and extended. The formulae of solutions, &c., are given in both the English and metric systems, except when they are quoted. The alternative expressions are not the equivalents of each other, but the discrepancies are so slight as to lead to no difficulty in practical work. Altogether it is a book that should find a place in the library of every photographer. The application of photography to composite portraiture is always of interest to students. A very complete series of such portraits is published in the March number of Kellog's Lists (36S & 370, Dearborn-street, Chicago). The series comprises the typical American advertisers (being a composite from the photograms of 140 leading newspaper advertisers), and composite portraits of piano and organ makers, noted seed dealers, general passenger agents, advertisers of noted remedies, manufacturers, representatives of popular preparations, well-known publishers, ...