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Miniature Picture: He had a collection of box cameras—"little mouse traps," his wife called them —which, upon a summer day, he would train upon the Abbey. "After the lapse of half an hour," he wrote, "I gathered them all up, and brought them within doors to open them. When opened, there was in each a miniature picture of the objects before which it had been placed."18 Talbot laid aside these experiments, which he realized were incomplete, and began work on the book, Hermes, or Classical and Antiquarian Research.
The advantages to the buyer are obvious. Does it seem like a bad arrangement for the photographer? At first glance it might seem so, but when this same picture is sold over and over, perhaps fifty times in the course of years, the photographer eventually realizes a handsome total return for his effort in shooting the picture for stock sales.
That's why the stock picture photographer doesn't get rich quick, but enjoys a long-term income advantage for his work. Many a picture has earned, over a period of years, more than $1,000 in fees.
The picture was important because it constituted legal evidence. My would-be client didn't want to take a chance on entrusting this picture to just any photographer, because he was afraid the picture might be muffed.
I turned down the job for two reasons: first because I don't want my Camera to embarrass any woman and second because I didn't want to be dragged into court as a witness in the divorce case. |
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