1937 The Secrets of Trick Photography

Description

Early Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, With Dustwrapper

The first English language German edition of the work, translated by P. C. Smethurst and published one year after the first edition of the work, which was published in German.

Includes more than seventy monochrome photographs appearing as vignette illustrations throughout the text to demonstrate a variety of techniques, including for creating shadowless backgrounds, multiplying the lens with prisms, and local reduction.

With three pages of original publisher's advertisements at the rear of the work.

This copy with the original clipped dust wrapper.

Scarce.

This is a fascinating guide to some of the most commonly used trick photography methods for achieving "more or less unusual pictures", explained by the photographer Otto R. Croy. It features specific sections on the pinhole camera, on faking moonlight and rainbows, and using reflectors for outdoor photography.