1909 Studio Portraiture - Complete Self-Instructing Library Of Practical Photogr

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Complete Self-Instructing Library Of Practical Photography. Volume VII Studio Portraiture Part I by J.B. Schriver 1909. 314 pages, Original not a reprint.  Part of an 8 volume series of photographic instruction.  Classic instruction on both the construction of a glass skylight photography studio as well as controlling light, skylight room equipment, different styles of portrait lighting (Plain, Rembrandt, Hollinger, Schriever, Sarony), posing subjects, groupings and early artificial lighting for photography including Aristo Lamp and Flashlight.
Very detailed instruction still applicable to portrait photography today.  One of my all time favorite early photography book. So inspired me I built my own north-light skylight studio. Check out the photos for contents and some of the detailed illustrations.
Book is in fair condition, covers show wear, cover starting to come loose but most pages are still bound tight with slight foxing.
If you are a portrait photographer, look beyond the condition and you will find this to be one of the most fascinating books you will ever own.
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James Beniface Schriever  (1868-1943) was a noted Pennsylvania photographer. He began his career in 1888. His original gallery was in the town of Kane. In 1890 he took his talent and went to work in Emporium. Between 1900 and 1937 he conducted his photography business in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Wilson’s Photographic Magazine (1900) announces the opening of Schriever’s Scanton studio and it appears that he was a talented in marketing. Music was played at the opening and invitations were sent to the public in the form of a legal summons. In 1900, Schriever was the President of the Pennsylvania Photographers Association. He was a 1906 member of the Scranton Board of Trade. He is reported in a “Rootsweb,com” entry to have photographed more than 130,000 people in Scranton during his career. He trained his nephew William G. Bair in the art of photography and sold the business to him in the early 1900’s. The business became known as the Bair Photo Studio. It burned down in the 1930’s. Schriever was also noted for his founding of the “American School of Art and Photography”. The school was actually a correspondence school that utilized the “Schriever System” to teach photography by mail. The course was entitled “The Complete Self Instructing Library of Practical Photography” (1908).