Anderson P. Pictorial Landscape-Photography

Photo-era, 1914. — 84 p.So many technical articles of the highest quality have appeared in photographic magazines, and there are so many textbooks giving formulae, that it would seem superfluous to treat of such matters extensively in the present volume, even apart from the fact that the writer believes the subjective qualities to be a much rarer possession than technical skill. Therefore, this essay has been written more with a view to point out a method of approaching the cultivation of artistic vision than with the idea of furnishing a technical reference-book, particularly as technique cannot be taught any more than can any other subject. In the last analysis, all acquired knowledge must come from effort on the part of the student, the most that the teacher can do being to indicate the direction which the studies should take. Therefore, in the following pages technique will be treated more suggestively than didactically, the more so as the writer believes the best technique to be the simplest that will permit the worker to express himself, any addition being a hindrance rather than a help.