Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1906 (Heft 16))

THE ABC OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
H stands for Hypo, a salt Jesuitical —
Apparently lamb-like, but subtly mephitical.
If posterity’s going
To look at your showing,
Believe me, you can not be too hypo-critical.
I’s the Impressionist. Gee !
What a glorious world this must be
When your eyes don’t quite track,
And when everything black
Is all purple and pink filigree !
J is Judge Lynch, to whose court we assign
The judging of niggers and prints. I opine
That you’ll readily know,
When he’s helped hang a show,
By the number of dead ones you see on the line.
K is the Kodaker spry,
From whose interrogative eye
Gleams the rage of the glutton,
As, finger on button,
He watches his chance to let fiy.
L is the Landscape immense,
With a tree, and three cows, and a fence,
Which is l'art à I'Anglais.
Why — but then I dare say
That I'm temperamentally dense !
M is the Model, whose beauty
To record is a positive duty ;
For her torso and thigh
Are a dream. But my, my !
Her face is best kept on the Q. T.
N is a Nuance, a brand-new affair
About half-way betwixt and between a split hair.
I don’t think I’ve heard
Who invented the word,
But his royalties ought to be mounting for fair.
J. B. Kerfoot.

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