Difficulties of the cameraman – Historic Reproduction
![Difficulties of the cameraman, [between 1909 and 1932] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4d/4d667da59c18-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Difficulties of the cameraman comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Difficulties of the cameraman
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Its title, "Difficulties of the cameraman," and its subject tags, which name billboards, suggest a joke about a photographer struggling to work when advertising signs crowd the view. The print comes from the National Photo Company Collection, part of a body of commercial work from the early 1900s through the 1930s, when photographers were often hired to record streets, sights and everyday scenes for sale to visitors and publishers. Pictures like this one show how outdoor photography of that period had to contend with a growing clutter of painted and printed advertising. Its humor and its subject make it a useful glimpse of how the trade and the city were changing at the same time.
| Created / published | [between 1909 and 1932] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1940. |
| Notes | National Photo Company Collection. No. 32234. |
| Subjects | Photography--1900-1940. Billboards--1900-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,069 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-167695 |
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