The chief characteristic of the pin-hole photograph is that… - Alfred Horsley Hinton

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The chief characteristic of the pin-hole photograph is that we get a general suppression of focus in all parts the picture is nowhere quite sharp.

Alfred Horsley Hinton

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(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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Both with the negative in position and subsequently without it, every part of a large print is, maybe, thus printed in, piece by piece, a large print often occupying me two or three days.

The moment the eye perceives that the picture is produced by other than the professed means, the effect, the appeal to the imagination, is disturbed.

The sky is as much an essential part of the picture as any other part of it, and indeed, in very many instances, constitutes the key-note and important feature of the whole idea.

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