Platinum is undoubtedly the process for the pictorialist, f… - Arthur Hammond

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Platinum is undoubtedly the process for the pictorialist, for it will reproduce gradations and halftones more delicately and with a longer range than any other similar printing process, but it demands a good negative to do it justice.

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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Plates and films possess great latitude, it is true, but too short an exposure always has a tendency to cause a loss of atmosphere.

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