“THE STYGIAN SHORE”
Despite the limitations of the camera as regards imaginative work there is a small but devoted band of photographers who use the camera as a means of artistic expression, and these men and women have produced some wonderfully fine results that fulfil the definition of art: “A means of arousing an emotion in the spectator.” In the last analysis, however, it will be found that such results are due to one of two methods of approach: either the careful selection of an unusual natural effect, or the use of one of the so-called “control processes”—that is, printing mediums that allow the worker to modify at will either the outlines or the gradations of the negative, or both. In the former case, however, the photographer cannot be regarded as more than an exceptionally sensitive and perceptive craftsman, and in the latter instance the camera user, of course, ceases to be a photographer and becomes a creative artist, using photography merely as a basis on which to construct an imaginative result. The possibilities of this second method of work have not yet been fully explored; they appear to be limitless.
The Precision of Photography
Photograph by Struss
AFTERNOON SUN
The Biltmore, New York
Photograph by Struss
A MISTY DAY