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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1914 (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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to certain general rules, and one of these is the law offoils. This law ramifies all art. Its proper observance pre-serves interest in the story—be it short or long—broadensthe harmony of music, and makes pictures satisfying. To bemore explicit, in literature there are various structural forms;short story, novel, essay, poem, etc., yet each form has a mainfeature associated with minor features. In the novel the mainplot is the basis of the work while the minor plots come inand distract the readers attention for a time, then the threadof the story is returned to with renewed interest because ofthe digression. Without such minor plots the mind, lackingstimulus, would be offended at the mental effrontery and thenovel would be termed insipid. Witness how ones interest ismaintained in reading Les Miserables. Perchance some one will say that is a masterpiece and itsimmensity demands that its true pictorial parallel must besought in the great painting—not in photographs. Very well, 134
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< w OP< Km Q l-H onCO who can read that Httle essay of Stevensons A Night Afieldwithout a sense of the supreme fitness of things—yet strippedof its rhetorical foils it is the merest bald statement, that aman camped in the open with his pack mule, for a night.Surely if homely simplicity in literature be the analog ofphotographs, the severest critic should be satisfied with theillustration. As in letters, so in music, the use of minor themes is resortedto in order that the dominant theme may be strengthened andinterest maintained. The story has it that Bill Nye once said, They tell meWagners music is better than it sounds. It is a safe venturethat had the wit been compelled to listen for long to musicof the ravishing sweetness of Jossefys with its one simplesweet strain, he would have noted a marked improvement inthe sound of the music of that master of dissonance. Yet again even as in literature and music, so in pictorialart. Among the pictures that have stood the test of time

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