With Flashlight and Rifle

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II Instantaneous Photographs of Wild Life INSTANTANEOUS photographs of living wild animals An every-day matter, surely And yet I venture to maintain that until the recent successful photographing of American wild life,1 and a few similar photographs taken subsequently by Englishmen, all the ostensible...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II Instantaneous Photographs of Wild Life INSTANTANEOUS photographs of living wild animals An every-day matter, surely And yet I venture to maintain that until the recent successful photographing of American wild life,1 and a few similar photographs taken subsequently by Englishmen, all the ostensible pictures of this kind we have seen have been of animals not in absolute freedom and not in their natural surroundings. Photographs taken in zoological gardens and closed preserves, or photographs of animals in captivity, surrounded by stage properties specially arranged for the purpose?photographs which, in addition, have been more or less retouched afterwards?pass current, and are often taken for representations of actual wild life. Anschutz rendered great services in Germany in the field of animal photography, and produced some beautiful pictures Zoological works continued, however, to be illustrated 1 Camera Shots at Big Game, by A. G. Wallihan, contains a number of very successful photographs of different kinds of deer. The photographs of pumas and bears are interesting, too; but the pumas had been hunted with dogs, and the bears had been caught by means of traps. chiefly by drawings which, for good reasons, failed in many respects to interpret the character of the animal world correctly. For not only had the artists no opportunity of studying the animals from the life, but they were frequently dependent upon ill-mounted museum specimens as models from which to produce life-like sketches. A few artists were in the position to make studies from life and on the spot, and to these we owe some valuable pictures; often, however, the animal pictures presented to us were stiff and wooden, and calculated to give quite wrong impressions. Incredible things were perpetr...