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This all means composition in the subduing of insistent outline, in the exchange of breadth for detail, in the centralization of light, in the suppression of the unnecessary. But no, the employment of these devices of the painter from the photographer’s point of view of composition is not sufficient. Photography is now busy complimenting every school of painting under the sun.

It is not a mere matter of color or no color, but of Invention and Design, of Feeling and Imagination. Photography is a matter of ingenuity: Art of genius.” On these lines however the philosopher of Coniston hardly proves his case. Invention and design, feeling and imagination, are all a part of the photographer’s suite. He employs them all. And these too are qualities the most artistic.

She was like some one in whom the faculty of becoming interested is worn out. SOON after I got home that summer I persuaded my grandparents to have their photographs taken, and one morning I went into the photographer’s shop to arrange for sittings.

Another girl would have kept her baby out of sight, but Tony, of course, must have its picture on exhibition at the town photographer’s, in a great gilt frame. How like her! I could forgive her, I told myself, if she had n’t thrown herself away on such a cheap sort of fellow.

How does the method of adjustment, or accommodation, of the eyeball differ from that of a telescope or a photographer’s camera? With two eyes how are we kept from seeing double? What different purposes are served by the tears. Trace them from the lachrymal glands to the nostrils. Show how the proper lenses remedy short- and long-sightedness. Describe the conjunctiva and give its functions.