Excerpt from Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures

MY dear dr. Genthez - Long before I knew who you were, I used to mark you in the shadows and recesses of Chinatown, your little camera half hidden under your coat, your considering eye and crafty hand of the artist alert to take your Shy and superstitious models unawares. Later, it was my privilege to follow you sometimes to watch you playing your Germanic patience against their Chinese patience, to marvel at you, in dark room and Studio, working with those mysterious processes by which you more than any other man alive have made art out of the play-time snap-shot. Now, after the great disaster, all that you have saved of your work of a decade is this same picture record of old Chinatown at which you worked so lovingly.

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