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Photographic Amusements 1922 — Walter E. Woodbury and Frank R. Fraprie (PDF)


A hundred year old handbook for achieving novel effects in photography all achieved by a balance of mechanical manipulations and weird chemical formulations. Lots worth stealing from.

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Some of my favourite sections:

Magic Photographs

Photography for Household Decoration

Photographing a Catastrophe

Photographing the Invisible

How to Make a Photograph Inside a Bottle

The Disappearing Photograph

Freak Pictures with a Black Background

Sympathetic Photographs

Photographs Without Light

Moonlight Effects

Comical Portraits

Pictures With Eyes that Open and Close

Photographs on Apples and Eggs


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