. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . / Ajjart from all the above considerations, these invaluablepictures are well worth attention from the standpoint of picto-rial art. We talk a great deal nowadays about the aston-ishing advances of modern art-photography; and it is (juitetrue that patient investigators have immeasurably increasedthe range and flexibility of camera methods and results. Wenow manipulate negatives and jjrint to produce an}- sort ofeffect; we print in tint or color, omitting or adding Avh
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . / Ajjart from all the above considerations, these invaluablepictures are well worth attention from the standpoint of picto-rial art. We talk a great deal nowadays about the aston-ishing advances of modern art-photography; and it is (juitetrue that patient investigators have immeasurably increasedthe range and flexibility of camera methods and results. Wenow manipulate negatives and jjrint to produce an}- sort ofeffect; we print in tint or color, omitting or adding Avhat wewish; numberless men of artistic capacity are daily showinghow to transmit personal feeling through the intricacies of themechanical process. But it is just as true as when the cave-man scratched on a bone his recollections of mammoth andreindeer, that the artist will produce work that moves the be-holder, no matter how crude may be his implements. Clearlythere were artists among these Civil ^Var photographers. Probably this Avas caused by natin-al selection. It tookardor and zest for this particular thing above all
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