The foxed-looking sepia-tinted drawings are made even more out of place and time by the diminutive hordes of toiling workers that people them; the racketty scaffolding, the gangs-of-men-with-ropes technology, the drawings themselves hung in wormy-looking, cumbersome old picture frames.
Under instructions from the War Office not to photograph the dead, the maimed, or the ill, and precluded from photographing most other subjects by the cumbersome technology of picture-taking, Fenton went about rendering the war as a dignified all-male group outing.
"The virtual cascade of revolutions, mechanical, optical and electronic, that made the SX-70 possible," rhapsodized a Polaroid brochure, "had only one purpose: to free you from everything cumbersome and tedious about picture-taking, so that it could become at last the simple creative act it should be".
Wrighton took all of his pictures with a cumbersome eight-by-ten camera that took fifteen minutes to set up.
But German and American photographers like Michael Schmidt, Robert Adams and Nicholas Nixon were at the same time putting aside their Leicas in favor of more cumbersome tripods to make deliberate, unembellished pictures of ordinary places.
"People are fed up with politics that are slow and cumbersome, he offers this image of a strong man with decisive leadership, which some people find appealing — at the very least, if you look at pictures of Jokowi, he's not a physically imposing man".
The cumbersome captions of the silent film could be dropped; certain strained methods of showing sound in pictures, such as shots of factory whistles, guns firing, or rows of clapping hands, became unnecessary.
Also taking ship was WK Dickson, experimenting with a new moving picture camera, "an immense, imposing and cumbersome affair made of mahogany, leather and brass" called the Biograph.
Although time consuming and cumbersome, the time-kill assays provide a dynamic picture of antibiotic action over time [ 40].
Although providing a picture of the progression of the infection, this cumbersome technique has many limitations.
