Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-03-14 | Page 20 | Kodak is Herald of Coming Spring

KODAK iS HERALD ! OF COB SPRING Amateur Photographers Are Busily Engaged in "Snapping" "Snap-ping" Scenes. FAD IS INCREASING Picturetaking Is Entering Upon a New Era of Development. Even before the spring styles begin to blossom and spring house-cleaning drives the "male of the species3' well nigh to distraction, the kodak heralds the approach of tho vernal season. Those time-honored harbingers the robin, rob-in, tops and marbles must give way to modern progress. With the first bright day the irrepressible irre-pressible amateur dusts his faithful kodak ko-dak and wanders at random in search for victims. A "kodak fiend" he was called in the early days of modern photography pho-tography days when the kodak was a luxury. But from a luxury the kodak has graduated to a necessity, and the "kodak fiend" has been accorded the more gentlemanly term of "amateur." In tuose days most folks were "kodak "ko-dak any." They didn't like to nose without being "dolled up in their bun-day bun-day best.". Every man, woman or child with a kodak was eyed with suspicion. It's different now people have become accustomed to them just the same as to other devices of progress, and the amateur ama-teur slips by unnoticed. Anyway, kodaks ko-daks are so numerous that they can't all be watched. Vacation Necessity. As a maker of incontrovertible records rec-ords the kodak first came into prominence. promi-nence. Then it was found to be indispensable indis-pensable to a vacation, and finally it has found its way into the home. Fond parents and grandparents like to see pictures of baby 's antics even baby enjoys them when he is classed among the grown-ups. And the grown-ups like to exchange photos when it can be afforded. To the disgust of the professional pro-fessional photographers, "the kodak furnished fur-nished the ways and means. And the pictures around home of the old homestead, the barn, the pets and some artistic group of shrubberv are amoug the dearest treasures. Ve like to show them to friends at school or in distant cities, and we always like home scenes to show things at their best. Is True to Life. , "We don't like, to suffer by comparison, and the camera is true to life it reflects re-flects every defect and every charm that can be reflected in a monotone. Therefore, before the picture is taken, things must be straightened around. It brings out the artistic. A broken board iu the fence, an unkempt clump of shrubbery and other little defects commonly com-monly unnoticed are an eye-sore to the artistic. Even the picture that is not hung straight on the wall will always be the Most prominent figure in the photograph. photo-graph. Each year sees some advance 5n kidakery as an art. Th. amateurs become more careful in their work. More attention is given to composition, to lights and shadows and harmony, and the pictures of home are given special spe-cial attention. So the kodak is entering upon a new era. Tt is developing the artistic, and as it has found its way into the home, more artistic and better kept homes owe, to a certain extent, the wonderful chango to the "kodak fiend" and his artistic pastime.