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Identifier: americanannualof28newy (find matches)
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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HE fascination of portraiture lies, undoubtedly,in the fact that in addition to the photographicproblems that are encountered, one is broughtinto touch with the study of human nature.Photographic technique is but the grammar ofthe art of portraiture, and is the least of the difficulties to beovercome in the production of really successful portraits.Just as a writer must learn to spell and must be familiar withthe rules of grammar before he can consider the compositionand style of his writings, so the portrait photographer mustunderstand the problems of lighting, exposure and develop- 192
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Illustrating Article Figure 2. Character and Individuality in Portraiture,by Arthur Hammond, merit before he can make much progress in the rendition ofcharacter and personahty. The elementary technical diffi-culties of portraiture are explained very thoroughly and ex-plicitly in the many magazines and handbooks devoted to thesubject, and it is with the higher problems of portraiture 1propose to deal in these notes. First of all, why should one portrait of a certain person bebetter than another? What is it that distinguishes a goodportrait from a bad one? Both may be technically faultless,both may be good prints from technically perfect negatives,yet it often happens that one is approved and others areruthlessly condemned. There must be something beyondmere technical perfection, there must be some indication of thepersonality of the sitter. We must have more in the picturethan a map of the features; we must try and get into it someof the individuality and personality, some distinguishi

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  • bookyear:1914
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Photography
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Tennant_and_Ward
  • bookcontributor:Harold_B__Lee_Library
  • booksponsor:Brigham_Young_University
  • bookleafnumber:258
  • bookcollection:americana
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