An introduction to the science & practice of photography (1891)
Jones, H. Chapman (Henry Chapman), 1854- · London : Iliffe & Son · leaf 153
likeness. In fig. 41 there are two vertical lines joined by a horizontal line, the simplest expression of the contour of a sitting figure. The near point of view (a) causes the horizontal line, or lap of the model, to cover a very much larger space in the picture than when the point of view is… … Fig. 41. Anything round — such as a ball, a column, a face, or a limb — shows a greater extent of surface from a distant than from a near point of view, as shown in fig. 42. Such objects have, therefore, an appearance increasing in fulness and richness as we retire from them until other matters…
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