Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . r cradle, doubting what they might expect from her, wonderingwhat place she would take among their other children. Science soon learned that shehad come with her hands full of gifts, and her bounty to astronomy, microscopy,chemistry, made her name blessed among these her elder sisters. Art, always moreconservative, hung back. The gifts at first were fewer, and she seemed an ominous rivalto the others. She threatened to leave them nothing to do. But slowly jealou
Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . r cradle, doubting what they might expect from her, wonderingwhat place she would take among their other children. Science soon learned that shehad come with her hands full of gifts, and her bounty to astronomy, microscopy,chemistry, made her name blessed among these her elder sisters. Art, always moreconservative, hung back. The gifts at first were fewer, and she seemed an ominous rivalto the others. She threatened to leave them nothing to do. But slowly jealous Art, whofirst frowned and called the rest of her brood around her away from the parvenue, haslet her come near, has taken her hand, and is looking her over with questioning , without a doubt, she will have her on her lap with the rest. Why has she been kept out so long? Almost from the beginning she claimed a place 180 Wilsons quarter century in photography. Some time ago the noted Freuch scientist, Clievreul, reached the age of onehundred years. La Nature devoted the entire space of an issue to a series of Fig. photographic interviews with the scientist, in which, while the flinious Parisianpliotographer, M. Paul Nadar, conversed with him, a stenographer took the in the house beautiful of art. In spite of rebuffs she knocked at its doors, though theportrait painter and the critic flung stones at her from the house-top, and the law itselfstood at the threshhold denying her entrance. Those early efforts were not untincturedwith a fear that if she did get in she would run the establishment; but the law long sinceowned her right, and instead of the crashing boulders of artistic dislike and critical THE APPLICATION OF ART PRINCIPLES. 181 conversation and an operator a series of instantaneous photographs of the twonoted personages. These so set forth the variety and quickness of the changesof human expression that I add a selection of them here (Fig. 178), with some
Size: 1579px × 1582px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookidwilsonsquart, bookyear1887
