Abstract

Fine Arts

The article presents information about the art of photography. Whether photography is or is not one of the fine arts is a question often disputed, even with acrimony at times, amongst photographers and the craft is divided not only in respect to the pretension but in the practice. One set, or sect perhaps, maintains in theory and method that a photograph may be designed as a picture, its parts separately produced in different negatives and combined in the printing so as to give the appearance of having been taken from a carefully arranged tableau vivant or natural landscape and by more or less retouching, as the combination printing was worse or better done, made so vraisemblable as to make it in general effect indistinguishable from a photograph of a completely realistic picture.