Beautiful B.P. Magazine
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Photographs
SINCE the middle ages, when long robed, beard ed alchemists discovered the secret of im printing images and scenes on sensitized paper, the art of photography has interested and in trigued mankind. It was the Frenchman Daguerre, who in 1839 first used the process which was the forerunner of the modern camera and photo graphy. From the crude daguerrotype to the exquisite photographs of to-day is a far cry, but the progress made in almost 100 years has been astonishing.
Compare, for instance, the beautiful sepia toned studies in the December B.P. Magazine with the stiff, pompous pictures of yesteryear. Truly the happy out-of-door spirit of the pleasure-loving Australians, and the mellow sunshine of their land, have been faithfully captured in the series of special photographs in this issue of the finely
printed quarterly.
Besides the usual excellent selection of stories, travel sketches, and comment on the films, drama, and music, is a page of photographs giving views of the activities of Guinea Airways Ltd., which conducts an efficient aerial transport service on the New Guinea mainland. The well-known writer on Polynesian themes, Mr. Eric Ramsden, has supplied an enlightening article on the An cient Art of the Maori Carver.”
A bizarre watercolour by the famous Australian artist, Mr. Norman Lindsay, entitled "Out of the Dawn,” makes an unusual front cover sub ject.