Otto Walter Beck
Published: 2016-09-08
Total Pages: 252
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Excerpt from Art Principles in Portrait Photography: Composition, Treatment of Backgrounds, and the Processes Involved in Manipulating the Plate Enslaved by commercialism, this plain photography has run into a lifeless groove. It has established a realism tending to preclude that nourishment and refreshing mental in uence found in suggestion and in the creative powers resulting in beauty. Its direct result has been to instill in the public a taste for literal ism chilling in its effect upon every form of art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."