The Modern way in picture making : published as an aid to the amateur photographer . ascinations ofSteichens photographs. In his direct and simple handling of light andshade and spacing there is a subdety of which even the a\-erage photog-rapher is conscious «-ithout being able to analyze why. This lack ofunderstanding is often due to all lack of art schooling and above all to hiswant of proper association. Nothing educates and refines more than properassociation. SIMPLICITY IX COMPOSITION. 163 Taking now our single, simple object and introducing another simpleobject into the composition, ther
The Modern way in picture making : published as an aid to the amateur photographer . ascinations ofSteichens photographs. In his direct and simple handling of light andshade and spacing there is a subdety of which even the a\-erage photog-rapher is conscious «-ithout being able to analyze why. This lack ofunderstanding is often due to all lack of art schooling and above all to hiswant of proper association. Nothing educates and refines more than properassociation. SIMPLICITY IX COMPOSITION. 163 Taking now our single, simple object and introducing another simpleobject into the composition, there immediately springs up a more complexsense of relation. The newly introduced object must now be studied notonly in its relation to the three factors previously enumerated and to objectNo. I, but its relation to each one of the three factors operating upon ourfirst object. This becomes thus a geometric progressive and so ad more involved these relations become, the less important are errors inthese minor relations—yet should all these relations be harmonious the. The Hand of Man. ALKUliD STIliGLITZ. result, though seemingly simple, is wonderfully fascinating to the naturestudent of composition. An instance of this can be found in Whistlers Piano Room . I have often been told that one of the main characteristicts of my ownphotographs lay in their simplicity of composition, and The Hand of Manis frequently instanced as an example of this quality. As the lines ofcomposition in this picture are anything but simple, I have come to theconclusion that the average person confounds simplicity and directnessof subject with the totally different quality of simplicity in composition. 164 SIMPLICITY IX COMPOSIIIOy. Had Gossip-Katwyk been instanced as a picture showing simplicity incomposition, it would ha\e been nearer the truth—vet this picture presentedto me in its composition one of the hardest nuts I e\er tried to a homelike, e\-er\-day subject presenting
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