Bain was great because he only worked in one size (actual size) and all of his images are contact proofs. He developed a machine that could automate the process so whatever the size of the negative (4x6 or 5x7) that would be the size of the print. As such there was no loss of detail. He was not nearly as prolific as some of the others that existed at the time, but his images are clean and deep. It also does not hurt that they are baseball card sized!
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