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This had the effect of puzzling some clerks, of occasionally leading to communication (finger-pinching for clothespins worked, for example), and most often of bringing out the clerks' sense of humor, expressed in good-natured if frustrated laughter.
A lot of people all over the world stumbled pretty much simultaneously upon the smokestack, the double exposure, the multiple shadow, the wall of humans, etc.--although Martin Munkàcsi deserves special mention for his work on the last, and this book doesn't even reproduce my favorite picture by him, a large scattering of schoolchildren lying on the grass, seen from above and looking like so many clothespins.