The Fine Art of PhotographyLippincott, 1919 - 314 страници |
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Страница 109 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers...
Страница 89 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Страница 92 - So to the land our hearts we give Till the sure magic strike, And Memory, Use, and Love make live Us and our fields alike — That deeper than our speech and thought Beyond our reason's sway, Clay of the pit whence we were wrought Yearns to its fellow-clay.
Страница 16 - At present there is an inclination among artists of all kinds, but especially among photographers, to consider any picture which is well arranged, pleasing in its tone qualities, and of an agreeable texture— in other words, which is esthetically gratifying— as artistically complete and satisfactory, but the writer cannot agree with this. Such pictures are simply machine work, and, though a machine may be very beautiful, and the product of a machine as well, it remains always a machine product,...
Страница 213 - Heart of my heart, is it meet or wise " To warn a King of his enemies? " We know what Heaven or Hell may bring, "But no man knoweth the mind of the King. "Of the grey-coat coming who can say?
Страница 13 - A fine art is any medium of expression which permits one person to convey to another an abstract idea of a lofty or ennobling character, or to arouse in another a lofty emotion.
Страница 124 - Here we sit in a branchy row, Thinking of beautiful things we know; Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do, All complete, in a minute or two — Something noble and grand and good, Won by merely wishing we could.
Страница 7 - In this volume, the author's aim is to point out the underlying principles of art insofar as they can be applied to photography, and to encourage the student of the subject to apply these principles in his own work.
Страница 106 - Joy, whether the simple joy of living or rejoicing over some definite condition, such as warmth or light, is also easily attained, but is not so deep an emotion. The stronger ones are the quieter, a violent emotion, such as extreme joy or horror, though more impressive at the time, being less apt to leave a deep impression on the mind, in which respect the pictorial representation differs from the actual experience. Generally speaking, the quieter emotions are the pleasanter to live with, and unless...