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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Kate Matthews (1870-1956) Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e etcher, the worker in charcoal, India ink orany other monochrome. Aside from the question of color, hemust apply the same rules as does the painter, with the addeddifficulty of making his tones suggest color. The whole fieldof art is opened to him and he has need for all the knowledgeof the subject which he can acquire. Every added refinementof the sensibilities will show in his results. The pictorial photographer, to do his best work, must studythe best pictures produced by every process and in every age,whenever he has access to them. He must read the best booksobtainable on painting, composition, landscape engineering orgardening, art subjects of every kind, as well as those onphotography per se. From each of these he will cull muchthat will better his product. The photographic magazines andexhibitions will have a new interest for him, for he will beginto exercise his artistic judgment—to become a critic. He willfind that the pursuit of pictorial photography will really tend 56
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SPRINGTIME. Kate Mathews. to a broad education of the whole artistic side of his nature,for, in the last analysis, all art is one. Foundation principleswill be found to underlie pictorial art, sculpture, music, litera-ture and the drama. A careful study of pictorial art will leadto the whole field. Moreover, enrichment of the aestheticnature will result in a keener appreciation of the beauties ofeach of the divisions of the field. This culture is the richestexperience of the pictorialist. The question of equipment is of much less importance tothe pictorialist than to the record-of-fact man. A cameracosting from one to three dollars may produce much finerresults in the hands of an artist than an expensive outfit inthe hands of a bungler. An enlargement of fair size froma I by 2-inch negative may contain everything desirable fromthe pictorial standpoint. Added outlay is for conveniences,not for necessities. The writer has had much satisfactionfrom a 4^2 by 6 cm. (i^ by 2^-inch) plate an

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