The Archive · 1938

Snapshot Guild

Summer is- here -and you soon should have a drawer full of prints pictures of week-end outings and the vacation tour, sunsets and maybe seashores, the family's younger generation in sun suits or bathing suits, capering about the lawn spray or digging furiously in a sand pile; all sorts of pictures rich with memories of a grand season, The question now is—what are you. going to do about them? Let them lie loose in the drawer where nobody will see them? Or, will you fix them up to be seen as pictures should be?

"The least you can do is mount them in an album so they won't be lost. And if you have some really good ones, you might try your hand at a "summer book," edited just as the modern picture magazines are, Have you.ever studied these magazines and wondered why their pages are so interesting? Have you wondered why your own snapshots do not have the same snap and flash?

It's really very simple—a matter of Size as much as anything else. When an art editor gets a picture that is specially good, he trims it down to

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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