Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . rson requiring therecord not having the necessary training and skill for themaking of such a drawing; granting this, it yet remainsthat the correct use of photography is to show the compo-sition in perspective, as a composition, as it was intended tobe seen, with light and shadows, projections and recesses, allholding their right and intended relations to one another. In this manner, in representing at once the utilitarianfunction of the feature considered, its history, and the in-tention of the architect who designed
Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . rson requiring therecord not having the necessary training and skill for themaking of such a drawing; granting this, it yet remainsthat the correct use of photography is to show the compo-sition in perspective, as a composition, as it was intended tobe seen, with light and shadows, projections and recesses, allholding their right and intended relations to one another. In this manner, in representing at once the utilitarianfunction of the feature considered, its history, and the in-tention of the architect who designed it, photography cando more than the pencil or the brush—to the generality ofmankind the photographic representation properly and feel-ingly made, tells more than the diagram, to which it is amost valuable supplement from the archaeologists point ofview. Every one can understand a photograph, but it needslong training to comprehend a diagram drawing, and in themind transform plan and elevation into mass and it is not merely a matter of mechanical
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