Calif.: Camera Craft Pub. Co, San Francisco, 1934. Second Edition, Fifth Printing. Wide octavo with tan and dark green pictorial jacket; light brown cloth-wrapped boards with red stamping; 95 pages including frontispiece, illustrations; 25 cm A very good (-) copy; some foxing and dampstaining to jacket, darkening at folds; minor chipping at extremities of spine and at folds of jacket, foxing at front and rear pastedowns; pages are clean and binding tight; excellent photo printing quality and very readable. Hardcover.
"A treatise on advanced methods of projection printing which give increased scope to the creative faculty of the photographic artist". A valuable item for students of photography, especially pictorial photography and its history. Striking images by glamour photographer Mortensen and a unique voice in defense of the artistic attributes of this now-ubiquitous technology. Contents: The scope and uses of projection control. Equipment and materials. Negative quality. Simple projection printing. The four methods of projection control. Framing. Local printing. Distortion. Montage and combination printing. Pax vobiscum. Appendix: textures. Notes: "Second edition revised and enlarged.".
