Handbook of the practice and art of photography (1875)
Vogel, Hermann Wilhelm, 1834-1898, Molling, Edward F · Philadelphia, Benerman & Wilson · leaf 338
e picture. What is applicable for a standing figure, will be true also for a sitting one. Here also a strong symmetrical sitting person appears ugly. The position is pleasanter if the head has a different position than the body (see Fig. 123), the feet different again from the rump, and arms,… … Fig. 126, where the right side is empty, while the left, at all events, shows a superfluous table. Here that is missing which art scholars call the artistic equilibrium. In this condition of equilibrium, it cor-
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