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 39
31 exact imitation of lines, or forms, or tones ; this would look too much like artifice, even if agreeable to the eye, which it would not be ; and art, how- ever much it may regulate the representation of nature, should never make nature look artificial. … The etching, illustrating a line from Tennyson's graceful poem, " The Brook" — "The haunt of coot and hern" — is another example of balance obtained by the introduction of a dark spot or spots in the immediate fore- ground. It would, of course, be difficult, if not altogether impossible, to…
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