| + + | Nature. 75: 343. F. 7, ’07. 2410w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“A work which will be the standard authority in English on a very important subject.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 281. My. 4, ’07. 2030w. (Review of v. 1–3.) |
Beck, Otto W. Art principles in portrait photography, composition, treatment of background, and the processes involved in manipulating the plate. **$3. Baker.
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The “good straight photography” descended from Daguerre is elevated into the realm of art away out of the “lifeless groove” into which “commercialism has enslaved it.” “In the treatise before us. Mr. Beck has shown, by description and pictorial illustration, that if creative work is to enter into photography it must be possible to make on the negative a line of any character and to control the light and shade with the facility of one who paints. In fact, his illustrations show that those powerful resources of the graphic arts, light lines and dark lines, can be made on the negative as readily as on paper and canvas.” (Dial.)
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 159. O. ’07. |
“The book is worthy of perusal by amateur as well as professional photographers.”
| + | Dial. 43: 68. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w. |