Robinson H.P. Picture-making by Photography

Hazell, Watson, & Viney, 1889. — 176 p.Gibbon, the historian, that he did not always sufl Sciently distinguish between his own personality and that of the Roman Empire. I am afraid that the following chapters may be open to a similar objection. I fear that a great deal more will be fonnd concerning my own personality and productions than a modest writer would willingly admit; but this cannot easily be avoided. The nature of the information to be conveyed, and the lessons to be inculcated, demand that I should teach the results of my own experience, and suggest that the pictures which have been the outcome of that experience would be the most suitable illustrations. It will be evident that pictures which have been actually produced by photography will better show the peculiarities and limitations of the art than any other method of illustration. That photography should be not only the recorder of bald prosaic fact, but also the means by which something akin to imagination or fancy real live art may be worthily embodied, has been the one SB piration of my life. To this end, my aim has been, in the following chapters, to induce photographers to think for themselves as artists, and to learn to express their artistic thoughts in the grammar of art.