Photography : being simple chapters for beginners on the art and practice of photography
A photography handbook for beginners by A. H. Blake, published in London by George Routledge and Sons in 1899, teaching the art and practice of the medium to novice readers. Its plates are early photographic studies: a close head-and-shoulders portrait of an elderly bearded man in soft light, and a rotated landscape of a sailing boat on a choppy sea under heavy clouds, which shows tonal range and atmosphere a designer could borrow for moody natural-light reference.
