…the strongest part of a picture is the sensation and the feeling which it creates, this being done through the agency of certain familiar objects mo… - Alfred Horsley Hinton

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…the strongest part of a picture is the sensation and the feeling which it creates, this being done through the agency of certain familiar objects more or less accurately depicted and represented with more or less completeness.
The MOTIVE, then, in all pictorial work is to convey some thought or idea or sensation by means of a chosen subject.

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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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