There is a tendency among "advanced" pictorialists to negle… - Arthur Hammond

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There is a tendency among "advanced" pictorialists to neglect the choice of an interesting subject and to trust to an effective pattern to make their pictures interesting. Such pictures are often interesting, but they are interesting more as studies in artistic technique than as pictures.

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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The artist, and more especially he who uses a camera, must enedeavor to be, not a mere recorder of external facts, but one who forms a vivid mental impression and tries to make us realize his impression.

...picture-making is almost entirely a matter of good taste, and that is largely instinctive when the taste has been trained and cultivated.

Practically speaking, the securing of true tones in a photograph depends entirely upon the exposure.

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