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Fine Art Photography: This contribution of photography, which had won the support of Baudelaire, was also praised by Lady Elizabeth Eastlake in her essay "Photography" in the London Quarterly Review for 1857. Her aesthetic could not embrace photography as one of the fine art photography Arts. She wrote:
Brush marks and lines, on the other ind, are not natural to photography, and I object and ways will object to the use of the brush, to finger daubs, i scrawling, scratching and scribbling on the plate, and i the gum and glycerine process, if they are used for nhing else but to produce blurred effects. Do not mistake my words. I do not want the photo-•aphic worker to cling to prescribed methods and academic standards. I do not want him to be less artistic than he is to-day, on the contrary I want him to be more artistic, but only in legitimate ways. ... I want pictorial photography to be recognized as a fine art photography art. It is an ideal that I cherish, . . . and I have fought for it for years, but I am equally convinced that it can only be accomplished by straight photography.
Consequently, those who can produce fine art photography pictures have turned to the magazines for their outlet, and have made of magazine photography a highly honorable pursuit, one in which the successful are respected in any company, no matter how elite or intellectual. Of course there are hack photographers in the magazine field, just as there are hack writers, but generally magazine photography compares in public esteem with any of the other professions, though not in financial rewards. |
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