NATURALISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY

FOR

STUDENTS OF THE ART

BY

P. H. EMERSON, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.)

AUTHOR OF “PICTURES OF EAST ANGLIAN LIFE,” “PICTURES FROM LIFE IN FIELD

AND FEN,” “IDYLS OF THE NORFOLK BROADS,” AND JOINT AUTHOR OF

“LIFE AND LANDSCAPE ON THE NORFOLK BROADS.”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”

SECOND EDITION, REVISED

NEW YORK

E. & F. SPON

12, CORTLANDT STREET

1890

XICopyright, 1889.

P. H. Emerson.

XIITO THE MEMORY

OF

ADAM SALOMON

SCULPTOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER,

Chevalier de l’ordre de la légion d’honneur,

This work is Dedicated

BY THE AUTHOR

AS A TRIBUTE OF ADMIRATION AND RESPECT

FOR THE FIRST ARTIST OF ACKNOWLEDGED ABILITY WHO WAS ORIGINAL ENOUGH

TO PRACTISE PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ITS OWN SAKE,

AND WHO WAS BRAVE ENOUGH

TO APPEAR BEFORE A PREJUDICED ART WORLD AS A PHOTOGRAPHER

AS WELL AS A SCULPTOR.

Bonne renommée vaut mieux que ceinture dorée.

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