Photography as a fine art : the achievements and possibilities of photographic art in America
Photography as a Fine Art is a 1901 New York treatise by Charles H. Caffin, a critic, arguing for photography's standing among the arts in America and illustrated with plates of pictorialist photographs. The pictures are soft-focus studio and garden portraits, with figures in period dress and a Native American portrait, and show how tonal haze and framing can give photographs a painterly finish a designer could borrow for atmospheric imagery.
