Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art (1887)
Wilson, Edward L. (Edward Livingston), 1838-1903 · New York : E.L. Wilson · leaf 182
176 avilson's quarter century in photography. Amsterdam is heard we could almost formulate the technique of any good picture of it iu our minds. We should expect no rocky banks with sea birds resting in the crevices, or foregrounds rich in clover or daisies or fields of ^ golden grain. Neither… … from our view. On the contrary, we should begin to picture what the fair artist has so finely represented by her splendid workmanship, a foreground broad in water, with bits of turf here on the left, and a city whose sunken- down-into-the-lagoon effect is accentuated by the low line of the horizon…
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