August 6.
Puoroorarny has long out grown the days when it was merely u mechanical contrivance for the reproduction of scones and faces. In those times, its capacities were so limited that it mast have been a dismal hobby, whilst it certainly could not be considered an art, because it lacked alnfost entirely the personal element. At the present day the most enthusiastic photographer would hardly lay claim to being an artist in the highest sense of the word, but be can consider himself to be one in aminer sense. The justice of his claim is based upon the fact that the personal element in photography is Lecoming more and more important. Dependent as the photographer is upon a complicated and delicate machine, he is far more than a highly skilled mechanician. If he cannot hope for success without being of practical turn of mind, nor can he attain it without considerable artistic capacity. This it is which absorbing anda d elgbfal cocenpsmakes photography at once #0
tion for so many people. Besides the enjoyment of manipulation, they find in it also an opportunity for self-expression—the essence of all artistic pleasure. For, beget they are taking photograph people or of places, tad first task is that of selection, and this volves the use of just those
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