PUBLIC LIBRARY DISPLAY

Evening Star, Issue 22457, 30 September 1936, Page 8

PUBLIC LIBRARY DISPLAY

PHOTOGRAPHY AND CINEMATOGRAPHY Displays both in the lending and reference departments of the Public Library are this week devoted to photography and the cinema. In the lending library the books on colour photography, ' black and white photography, tinting, composition, and on the latest developments are displayed. Elementary introductions are as follow;—‘ A Primer of Photography,’ by Wheeler, and ‘ Hand Cameras,’ by R. Child Bayley. More advanced books are 1 Foulsham’s Complete Photographer/ by S. C. Johnson; ‘ Photography Without Failures ’; * How To Use Your Miniature Camera,’ by Ivan Dmitri; and * Photographic Printing,’ by Dawkins, Books on composition are ‘ Photographic Art Secrets,’ by Nutting, and ‘ Making a Photograph,’ by Adams. ‘ Practical Colour Photography,’ by E. J. Wall, describes many different methods in detail, as does ‘ Colour Photography,’ by Wheeler. Miscellaneous technical works are ‘ Photography as a Scientific Instrument,’ by various writers, which gives the history of photography, and describes photographic optics, astrononucal photography, photography as an instrument in physics and engineering, in surveying, in its application to the art of printing; ‘ Photoelectric Cells, by Campbell and Ritchie; ‘ The Art of Colouring Photographic Prints,’ by Tobias ; ‘ Camera Making,’ by Bernard Jones; ‘ Studio Portrait Lighting/ by Herbert Lambert; ‘ The British Journal Photographic Almanac, 1935/ which gives formula for making developing, intensifying, reducing, toning, and other solutions; and ‘ Infra-red Photography,’ by Rawling. Non-teehnical works on photography are ‘ The Kingdom of the Camera/ by G. Thorne Baker; ‘The Year’s Photography, 1935-36 ’; ‘ The Image of London/ by E. 0. Hoppe; and ‘ Photography To-day,’ by D. A. Spencer. Books on the camera are very popular. Outstanding among these are ‘The Talkies/ by Scotland; ‘Talking Pictures/ by Bernard Brown; ‘ A History of Movies/ by Benjamin Hampton ; ‘ Making Home Movies/ by P. 0. Ottle v v; ‘Home Cinema/ by J. P. Lawrie; ‘This Film Business/ by RP. Messel: and ‘ For Filmgoers Only/ by Paul Rotha, and others. In the reference room a number of copies of the ‘ international Review of Educational Photography ’ are on display. Books on composition are ‘ Practical Composition in Photography/ by Hammond; ‘ Practical Landscape Photography/ by various photographers; and the ‘“Studio” publication, ‘ Modern Photography ’ for the years 1931-36, which shows by example how photographs should be composed. Outstanding among books on colour photography, are ‘ Photography and Clours/ by G. L. Johnson, and ‘ Photographic Optics and Colour Photography/ by the same author; Reyner s ‘ Cine-Photography for Amateurs ’ describes its subject right from the beginning, and is a very full account j ‘ Photographic Facts and Formulae, by E. J. Wall, explains exposure, photographic optics, development, and gives formulas for all photographic and photo-mechanical processes. Other excellent works are “Photogravure/ by Bennett; ‘ A Dictionary of Photography ’ (wonderfully complete) ; and Neblette’s ‘Photography, Its Principles and Practice/