Experiments in photography of live fishes
Experiments in photography of live fishes is a 1899 Government Printing Office publication by Robert W. Shufeldt for the United States Fish Commission, documenting early attempts to photograph fish alive. The plates pair side-by-side photographs of fish specimens on plain backgrounds with captioned full-length views of trout and grouper, showing fish photographed at close range with even tonal detail. A designer could take from them the value of clean, isolated subject framing and the sculptural texture of scale patterns and fins.
