He (the photographer) has practically created a new thing out of materials gathered from nature; upon a foundation of fact he has allowed his imagina… - Alfred Horsley Hinton

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He (the photographer) has practically created a new thing out of materials gathered from nature; upon a foundation of fact he has allowed his imagination to build up an entirely fictitious scene, and the truth of the effect will depend upon how far his perceptions have been trained by studying nature at various times, so as to know how things might look under certain circumstances.

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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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