Photography, properly controlled, can render tones better t… - Arthur Hammond

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Photography, properly controlled, can render tones better than any other medium of artistic expression, and personal control of exposure and development will be all that is necessary to get good tones and truthful gradations, for the camera, properly guided and then left to do its own job in its own way, will take care of the tones of a picture very well.

Arthur Hammond

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Arthur Hammond (1880 - 1962) was a pictorialist photographer, who has written books like Pictorial Composition in Photography.

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