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Sidney Allan [Sadakichi Hartmann], Roaming in Thought (After Reading Maeterlinck’s Letter)
DOI Artikel:Dallett Fuguet, Uncle Josh on the Show [poem]
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discriminate it, and to realize it distinctly. It is at such moments absolutely
futile to trouble oneself with the abstract questionwhether a photographic
print can be a work of art, or what the exact relation of photography is to
other art-expressions.
If artists could only be persuaded to take up photography. Imagine what
a Whistler might have done with the camera! Whistler photograph?
How absurd! the artists would say. I am not so sure about that. It is
mainly the mediocre artists who object to photography. A man of brains
like Whistler can see the good in everything and, according to Mr. Day, was
in favor of the movement. But the artists are incorrigible. Their ignorance,
as to what photography is, furnishes a barrier that they will never clear.
My hope rests with the young people desirous of entering some artistic
profession. Some of these will undoubtedly become enthusiastic adherents
of the camera, and they will never regret it, as few branches of artistic
endeavor have such a bright future before them — and this can be said
without assuming the hieratic attitude of a prophet — as photography.
But the artists do not need to be frightened about its progress. It will
never seriously interfere with pictorial art, at least not before color-
photography in one plate has been invented and kinetoscope-photography
perfected. It may eliminate some of its qualities, but these qualities
necessarily can not be essential ones, as only weak and superficial things
allow themselves to be eliminated. It may eventually do away with much
bad illustration and painting, but we surely can only be thankful for that.
SlDNEY ALLAN.
UNCLE JOSH ON THE SHOW
REAL? AIN’T they real, by a realist?
The bump on the log just can’t be missed.
A healthy man could chop the trees
To cord-wood. By gum, 'tain't gum done these !
Here’s none of your “ caveyar,” no stale fish,
But corn-beef and cabbage in the dish
For the average visitor with a whiff
To size up and feel at home, not stiff
As if he was at a spoiled-art show-
For these air real photygraphs, you know !
Now, that un you’dput on the parlor-table
Or hang up over the mantelpiece
In a red plush frame, and we'd be able
To know ’twas just a picture of geese
If our eyes was waterin’ with smoke,
And we was eighty, with our spec’s broke.
Dallett Fuguet.
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futile to trouble oneself with the abstract questionwhether a photographic
print can be a work of art, or what the exact relation of photography is to
other art-expressions.
If artists could only be persuaded to take up photography. Imagine what
a Whistler might have done with the camera! Whistler photograph?
How absurd! the artists would say. I am not so sure about that. It is
mainly the mediocre artists who object to photography. A man of brains
like Whistler can see the good in everything and, according to Mr. Day, was
in favor of the movement. But the artists are incorrigible. Their ignorance,
as to what photography is, furnishes a barrier that they will never clear.
My hope rests with the young people desirous of entering some artistic
profession. Some of these will undoubtedly become enthusiastic adherents
of the camera, and they will never regret it, as few branches of artistic
endeavor have such a bright future before them — and this can be said
without assuming the hieratic attitude of a prophet — as photography.
But the artists do not need to be frightened about its progress. It will
never seriously interfere with pictorial art, at least not before color-
photography in one plate has been invented and kinetoscope-photography
perfected. It may eliminate some of its qualities, but these qualities
necessarily can not be essential ones, as only weak and superficial things
allow themselves to be eliminated. It may eventually do away with much
bad illustration and painting, but we surely can only be thankful for that.
SlDNEY ALLAN.
UNCLE JOSH ON THE SHOW
REAL? AIN’T they real, by a realist?
The bump on the log just can’t be missed.
A healthy man could chop the trees
To cord-wood. By gum, 'tain't gum done these !
Here’s none of your “ caveyar,” no stale fish,
But corn-beef and cabbage in the dish
For the average visitor with a whiff
To size up and feel at home, not stiff
As if he was at a spoiled-art show-
For these air real photygraphs, you know !
Now, that un you’dput on the parlor-table
Or hang up over the mantelpiece
In a red plush frame, and we'd be able
To know ’twas just a picture of geese
If our eyes was waterin’ with smoke,
And we was eighty, with our spec’s broke.
Dallett Fuguet.
24
