Identifier: americanannualof3334newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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would point out the dangersinherent in each of these attitudes of mind, the tendencieswhich are likely to minimize the artistic effect of the resultssecured. The danger of the first school has been already sug-gested ; it lies in the fact that the worker may become inter-ested in pure estheticism and, finding it easier to secure aneffect thus (for pattern and print quality and texture mayreadily be learned) may be reluctant to make the effort ofimagination requisite to pictorial effect, and may come to relyexclusively on the sensuous appeal of a beautiful print, thusplacing himself in the class of literary stylists who saynothing, very beautifully. On the other hand, the one whois concerned for pictorial effect, for the conveying of an idea,may too easily come to despise esthetic merit, and may eventu-ally find himself in the position of one who, having a messageto give, is unable to deliver it because he does not know thelanguage. The best way to guard against either of these faults
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CO WW HW OhPh< 67 is to cultivate a sincere and honest interest in the work of mem-bers of the other school, trying to see the merits even in workswhich do not, as a whole, appeal to the student consideringthem. Taking up now the question of apparatus, we may say thatbut few pictorialists, of either class, will voluntarily work witha camera which lacks a focussing screen. Some indeed, afterconsiderable practice, will be content to do so, but, as a rule,the miniature cameras, folding film instruments, and the like,will be employed only for record work, when traveling, and soon, for the convenience of a ground-glass the size of the fin-ished print is undeniably great. To the worker who aims atestheticism the inversion of the image on the screen of theview camera is a defect of no importance—it may, in fact, bea help, since pattern is then considered apart from any dis-turbing influence of pictorial effect—^but to the worker whoaims specifically at pictorial results, at the convey

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