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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1911 (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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ANY of the works require examination to showthat they are not paintings, but there is appar-ently no reason for choosing pastel if nothingdistinctive of its own particular properties isarrived at. We have emphasized this pointbefore and always turn most readily to those artists who ap-preciate it, finding, as on former occasions, the true aims.—Studio^ July 15, 1910. If photography is to take place among the arts, it must beby exhibiting the distinction of its own particular properties.There can be no reason for choosing photography as a mediumof expression if nothing distinctive of its own particular prop-erties is arrived at. 306
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THE MUSIC LESSON. ERNEST G. BOON. Those *oil and *gum prints in which the photographicproperties have been eHminated, and the photographic orig-inal concealed, or destroyed, as merely interesting hybrids,many of them, no doubt, exhibiting a rare refinement of artisticperception, but all of them harmful to the true progress ofpictorial photography, misleading as they do the youngerworkers. But a healthy reaction has set in against the school of ex-treme interference, and we find Monsieur Demechy at theopening of his one-man show at the Royal Photographic Soci-ety, saying: It is not without diffidence that I venture to showa series of locally developed prints at a time when pure pho-tography is at a premium amongst many pictoriaists. And the highest praise that Mr. Warburg, chairman of thesame meeting, could bestow on the locally developed printswas: some of the controlled prints on these walls are as fineas the finest straight negatives could possibly give us. There are tw^o maxims I s

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