Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1906 (Heft 15))

THE A. B. C. OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

A is the artist, whose care
Is his ego for us to declare

In stone, or in rhymes,

Or in paint—though at times
His ego runs mostly to hair.

B's for bichromate, a sensitive chemical
With tendencies outre and unacademical.

A dangerous drug

In the hands of the smug—

But a godsend to critics polemical.

C is C-cession — a tale
Ever old, ever new, never stale.

The identical dope
Luther gave to the Pope;

The game Jonah came on the whale.

D is Daguerre, an old fogey
Whose process was clever but logey.

H e was IT once, but say !

H e’s six down, two to play,

In a match where George Eastman is <c Bogey.”

E’s for esthetic, a word

Which you possibly never have heard,

Though it’s one the hot-airy
Use often, to vary

Such terms as <c queer,” “odd,” and “absurd.”

F s for foreshort’ning, the ultimate germ
Of perspective in art, it’s a technical term
For to do—with a lens,

Or with pencils or pens—

What the dicky-bird does to the worm.

G s what they say when they see
The things in the Little Galler^.

IVe watched, and I know.

They come into the show,

And they stop, and look ’round, and say, <c Gee !

J. B.

X

Kerfoot.

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