… to put it into slightly different form, it is not the fac… - Alfred Horsley Hinton

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… to put it into slightly different form, it is not the facts in nature that the good picture aims at portraying, but the effects of light and shade accompanied by a pleasing arrangement.

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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