The Portrait in photography by Graham Clarke

By Graham Clarke

The photographic portrait is mentioned in a large context, from basic topics corresponding to the kin photo album and American portrait images to the paintings of person artists like Sander and Stieglitz

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And on this side it becomes itself a science of the first order, levying contributions on the higher departments of chemistry, physics, and mathematics. Just as the constructor may be an architect or an engineer, so the art photographer and the photo-mechanic stand side by side. We are apt to depreciate the photo-mechanical worker because his productions are destined to be multiplied and sold at the cheapest prices they are the copies of another's Even the oil original. painter or the artist in black and white hardly realises the science as well as the skill involved ; in the processes, and pencil lines reproducing with such fidelity brush marks which were aforetime travestied by wood- The power to enlarge or engravers and lithographers.

Kennett, and C. Bennett must also be associated. Some old experts still contend that its advent marks the commencement of an age of degeneration. Certainly the last two decades of the nineteenth century witnessed a vast revolution to the profit of all interested commercially in From the manufacture and supply of things photographic. an academic pursuit for the few, and a difficult and expensive photography was suddenly transformed into a pursuit the million, commending itself readily to the man whose purse is slender and hours of leisure few in number.

Printing, in. first essentials is to see that it will provide for the various There must be double extension, focussing by rackwork sufficiently to allow of the back or front combination of the rectilinear lens being used alone, lenses likely to be used in when it. the central features of the view are at a considerable In the case of a half-plate instrument the extension be from 16 to 18 inches. On the other hand, necessary must be made, by a telescopic form of baseboard provision distance. will If the or otherwise, for a wide-angle lens of about 5 inches.

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