…--- a view may include any number of interesting facts, may constitute a whole catalog of important and pretty items, and so be valuable as a view o… - Alfred Horsley Hinton

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…--- a view may include any number of interesting facts, may constitute a whole catalog of important and pretty items, and so be valuable as a view or as a record; but it would utterly fails as a pictorial composition.

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About Alfred Horsley Hinton

(1863 – 25 February 1908) was an English landscape photographer, best known for his work in the pictorialist movement in the 1890s and early 1900s.

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Alternative Names: A. Horsley Hinton A. Horsley-Hinton
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