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NATURA IMPORTANT LIS NEW BOOK TIC ON PHOTOGRAPHY ? PHO , Now TO R 0 ady GRA , price 5 PHY s . FOR STUDENTS OF THE ART . » J ... \ By Dr . P . H . EMEkSON , B . A ., M . B . ( Cantab . ) , Author of ' Pictures of East Anglian Life , ' ' Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads , * *& c . Crown 8 vo . cloth , 5 s . 1 - ... -- '¦ - —t - N • 'In , the work just issued , that the author endeavours himself to look directly at his subject ,. without feeling himself boimd by what others have , said , constitutes the chief charm , and the reader soon finds lie is not in contact with an author who is either an echo of others , or wishes to make his readers mere echoes of himself ; indeed , the reader soon finds that his teacher is riot one them who expects to think and and striyes act for to themselves mould his ; readers If our to author his ' s own spirit image was , more but one current who among hopes to the rather technical lead teachers of our day , we Would probably be in a more hopeful condition as regards future progress ; in the arts ! and crafts . The literary style , of the work is excellent , and it contains a fund of useful ' information conveye'd in apleasant manner . ... The mass of the book is composed of valuable and thoughtful essays on the various branches of photographic work—both from the technical and the artistic aspects—embodying the author's own experience . Altogether " Naturalistic Photop grap hotograp hy " is hy a . ' work —Photographic which should News be possessed . and read by every one interested in the practice of ' Suffice it to say that the book is distinctive from any other book on photography , and thereis reading worth study on every page . "We have been so fascinated by the freshness of language , and the forcible way in which the author endeavours in to bowl over " old ideas and institute new volume ones , th . at We we can have onl had y say a difficulty that we at heartily t ^ imes commend laying aside it to ' . the all who admirably are interested printed and in artistic got-up photography , and who are not above learning from a master in the subject Photographic . ' Journal . When he comes to the part that really concerns photographers he is simply admirable . . . . his his boldness subject , and and his orig practical inality of conclusions treatment , , are the as ability charming with as which they he are anal val yses uable , , arranges as pleasant , and to treat read s as cap they ital , will and be oug useful ht to meet to practise with acceptance The , and latter must part be of valuableJx the book > the on p techni hotograp que hic arid world practice . .. is . ' grap Carefull hy ' y is thoug a valuable ht out , contribution ably written to , boldly our literature expressed . '— , Photography original in treatment . , " Naturalistic Photo- ! ' Dr . Emerson ' s book has come at last . It was well worth waiting for , and fully justifies j ideas expectations . . . . The . . . general .. It has acceptance evidently of alread evolution y helped princi ' a p considerable les , thought freed number from of trammels photographers and the to adoption of scientific methods , tend to give us treatises in which a rational and natural , basis for all interest phenomena , and will is furnish sought . texts Dr . Emerson for art argument ' s book is for distinctl some y time of this to corn class e , as well It as is afford brimful solid of instruction for the earnest student . '—Camera Club Journal . lui sont 'C ' est tellement un volume personnels a lire , je , -dirai qui souvent m'Cme contredisent & relire , car si le fort Dr . les P . ide H . " es Emerson g 6 n £ ralement emet des recues id 6 es , qu qui 'il l ' art ut ' s p 'y hotograp reprendre hique a deux . . . . foi II s pour se compose bien se d rendre ? une introduction compte de sa , maniere dans laquelle toute nouvelle nous trouvons d-appr ^ tout cier tous d ' abord ses d la ^ tails preuve ^ et ajautons de Torig qu inalite 'il est * des trait idees 6 d ' une de fa Tauteur ^ on tres . inte . . > . essante On le . voit . . , . le II sujet faut reconnai est trait t § re dans que ceux la lecture qui s ' de occupent ce volume de Tetude s'impose des non beaux seulement -arts . '— ii Journal ceux qui de s ' occupent l'Industbie de photograp photooraphiquk hie , mais & tous . the op * It inions is enoug and h man to say y doctrines that we have of the read author this very beautifully remarkable got-up ; and book finally with interest we can , in and good consider faith recommend the book . '—( Translation of part of review in the ) Deutsche Photographen-Zeitung . London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , SEARLE & RIVINGTON , Limited ^ St . Dunstan ' s House , Fetter Lane , Fleet Street , B . C .
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1889, page 576, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051889/page/66/
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