I want to say I read somewhere that a new style high speed camera came out about that time whose faster shutter speed allowed for clearer images as the subject matter didn't have to stay still as long. Newspapers were buying these and using their use as a marketing tool to sell dailies.
I like the idea, but they didn't even print portraits or team pictures taken in studios then. The newspapers used illustrations for those as well. I think it has something to do with the newspaper printed process. This site needs more readers who worked in newsroom or printing house around 1900.
Yes. Davis had a decidedly Princeton view of the world, but he was an incredible historian, and was on the rules committee from 1909 until ??. I've used the plate images from his book over and over.
From the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-war-i-rotogravures/articles-and-essays/the-rotogravure-process/
Thank you, good sir. That answers the question.
I want to say I read somewhere that a new style high speed camera came out about that time whose faster shutter speed allowed for clearer images as the subject matter didn't have to stay still as long. Newspapers were buying these and using their use as a marketing tool to sell dailies.
I like the idea, but they didn't even print portraits or team pictures taken in studios then. The newspapers used illustrations for those as well. I think it has something to do with the newspaper printed process. This site needs more readers who worked in newsroom or printing house around 1900.
Parke Davis' 1911 history shows sharp action shots as early as 1890 ..
Yes. Davis had a decidedly Princeton view of the world, but he was an incredible historian, and was on the rules committee from 1909 until ??. I've used the plate images from his book over and over.