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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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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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ws.Fly not like the eagle, little mind, or you may be shot for agoose. Fads are the ephemeral attempts to escape rules andthey last for a day. But the arts of Greece have given Rodinhis schooling. Praxiteles is still the master. The rules of Art are not made arbitrarily and intended tocurb individuality. They are arrived at by experience, andmature, patient study and consideration. They are based onlaws of nature: Basic and fundamental. Hogarths line ofbeauty is not a formula but a psychological phenomenon.Curves please because men have been created with a sense ofease and enjoy the smooth traverse of round lines and resentthe violence of angles. Balance (not mathematical symmetry)is a quality within us not established by the will of man.So in photography it behooves us to study well every law ofArt, to master every application thereof, to adapt each to ourform of expression, and if God has been so good as to makeus great enough, to add to these laws with demonstrations ofour own. 142
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s ^ 12;O < o 143 Unlike religion, which hath many creeds, Art has but one,To hold the mirror up to Nature, and while*To him who in the love of NatureHolds communion with her visible formsShe speaks a various language,we must never forget that it is Nature which speaks and notour own exalted self that makes the thunder roar, or thestreams purl, or the breezes whisper. The human form divine is divine when it conveys to usthe beauty Divinity put upon it. When it is merely a nakedbody it is only carnal, ugly, obscene and calling it a Studyin the Nude cannot make it an exemplar of Art. When distorted trees and curdled skies manufactured byreticulated films and cotton batting are smudged on paper,we may say a new Art has arrived but there is no new Art.Though the bodies of men change and earth itself passesthrough its mutations, the primal force, the unit of origin,the first creative edict that started the universe shall be as itwas at the beginning. And we who worship Art and loveher, n

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