Pictorial effect in photography : being hints on composition and chiaroscuro for photographers, to which is added a chapter on combination printing (1869)
Robinson, H. P. (Henry Peach), 1830-1901 · London : Piper & Carter · leaf 176
most effectual means of impressing truths on a pupil's mind is to reiterate them again and again from many points of view. It is for this reason that I have introduced several illustrations showing how the pyramidal form — that of most use in figure composition — has been the ruling idea in the… … from Elmore's fine picture of the u Invention of the Stocking Loom." The fault of the picture, in the eyes of some critics, is, that the subject is
Composition (Photography)
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