Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1912 (Special number))

These articles bear, to current interpretative criticism, a relation
exactly analogous to that born by the work of the men of whom
they treat to the painting and sculpture of the older schools.
So close, indeed, is this analogy that they will doubtless be
regarded by many as no less absurd, unintelligible, radical or revolu-
tionary than the so-called vagaries of the painters whom they seek
to interpret.
Yet—they employ a medium in the technical manipulation of
which we are all at least tyros.
They are expressed in words.
And hence they offer—to all who choose to examine them
with an inquiring mind—a common denominator of comprehension;
a Rosetta stone of comparison; a decipherable clew to that intellectual
and esthetic attitude which underlies and inspires the movement
upon one phase of which they are comments and of the extending
development of which they are themselves an integral part.
We wish you the pleasure of a hearty laugh at them upon a
first reading. Yet we confidently commend them to your subsequent
and critical attention.