This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...itself in extravagant designs of neckwear and waistcoats; a phase that is but a passage towards more mature ideals. Equally we may dismiss, without too serious misgiving, the shortcomings and the vagaries that are here and there conspicuous in American pictorial photographs, for the two reasons already mentioned. To ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...itself in extravagant designs of neckwear and waistcoats; a phase that is but a passage towards more mature ideals. Equally we may dismiss, without too serious misgiving, the shortcomings and the vagaries that are here and there conspicuous in American pictorial photographs, for the two reasons already mentioned. To repeat, these are, first, the present propriety and future gain of preserving the tireless spirit of experimenting; and, secondly, because of the importance of the qualities which it is the chief aim of the American photographer to secure in his prints. For, while composition and form and the technical qualities cannot be ignored or slurred over with impunity, one may feel very sure that the highest technical quality to aim at, the one in which photography will ultimately manifest its most individual and characteristic possibilities, is just that one which chiefly occupies the American picture-maker--Light. It is from Rembrandt and Velasquez and from Whistler, interpreting the latter, that the photographers are seeking and will discover their best inspiration. In the direction of breadth and simplification, such as displayed by Hals, or of elegant sumptuousness, as exhibited by Van Dyck, or in the direction of a union of the two, such as Sargent has accomplished, the camera must yield to the brush; but in rendering the subtleties of light, there is a fair chance that the superiority, as a medium, will be discovered in the camera. It is on this account that the aims and accomplishments of the best American photographers are entitled to the highest consideration. On this occasion space will not permit a critical analysis of their individual contributions. Nor if it were possible would it be, in a general comparison of modern manifestations of phot...
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