DOI Heft:
No.9 (December, 1893)
DOI Artikel:W., G.: Photographic portraiture: an interview with Mr. H. H. Hay Cameron
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17189#0097
Photographic Portraiture
orifice in the camera to fog the plate; this is not cannot, unfortunately, be told at length here, but
true. The real fact is that when focussing and future generations who have to thank her for those
she came to that which was beautiful to her, she portraits of Tennyson, Browning, Taylor, Darwin,
stopped there, instead of screwing on the lens to Carlyle, Herschel, and a score of the greatest men
MISS MARY ANDERSON AS "PERDITA." FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY H. H. HAY CAMERON
the more clearly defined focus which at that time of a great period in English letters and science, will
all photographers aimed to secure." associate her name with them no less surely than
Mr. Cameron, as he showed me portfolios Philip of Spain recalls Velasquez, or Charles the
and albums of fine prints, recounted the story First Vandyke, for of more than one of these
of his mother's achievements. How modestly portraits one realises that the man himself is pre-
he forebore to include his own later advances served for future ages. Mr. F. D. Maurice, writing
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orifice in the camera to fog the plate; this is not cannot, unfortunately, be told at length here, but
true. The real fact is that when focussing and future generations who have to thank her for those
she came to that which was beautiful to her, she portraits of Tennyson, Browning, Taylor, Darwin,
stopped there, instead of screwing on the lens to Carlyle, Herschel, and a score of the greatest men
MISS MARY ANDERSON AS "PERDITA." FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY H. H. HAY CAMERON
the more clearly defined focus which at that time of a great period in English letters and science, will
all photographers aimed to secure." associate her name with them no less surely than
Mr. Cameron, as he showed me portfolios Philip of Spain recalls Velasquez, or Charles the
and albums of fine prints, recounted the story First Vandyke, for of more than one of these
of his mother's achievements. How modestly portraits one realises that the man himself is pre-
he forebore to include his own later advances served for future ages. Mr. F. D. Maurice, writing
35