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#0100
Photographic Portraiture
brilliancy of the shadows in certain prints, Mr. With a mutual shudder we passed to more
Cameron spoke of a new method lately perfected, pleasant topics.
for printing upon a fine woven fabric, in which the A frame of very attractive faces caught my eye.
spots of light imprisoned among the threads surpass " This is the Captain of the Marlborough Cricket
the brilliancy of any paper. Eleven," said Mr. Cameron, taking down a photo-
MASTER HENRY H1THERINGTON. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY H. H. HAY CAMERON
"But would not such a process lead to disastrous graph of a typical English lad with all the youthful
results ? One has seen lately Millet's Angelas grace and boyish fun preserved, together with a
burlesqued upon a sofa cushion. Surely the pros- dignified courtesy that we love to believe is
pect of portraits of professional beauties or famous peculiar to a fine English gentleman. " Here is
pictures made into sachets and the like, bedecked young Lord-; those are the children of ' So-
with frills and ribbons, is a terrible forecast." and-so,'" and a dozen or two of English boys and
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brilliancy of the shadows in certain prints, Mr. With a mutual shudder we passed to more
Cameron spoke of a new method lately perfected, pleasant topics.
for printing upon a fine woven fabric, in which the A frame of very attractive faces caught my eye.
spots of light imprisoned among the threads surpass " This is the Captain of the Marlborough Cricket
the brilliancy of any paper. Eleven," said Mr. Cameron, taking down a photo-
MASTER HENRY H1THERINGTON. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY H. H. HAY CAMERON
"But would not such a process lead to disastrous graph of a typical English lad with all the youthful
results ? One has seen lately Millet's Angelas grace and boyish fun preserved, together with a
burlesqued upon a sofa cushion. Surely the pros- dignified courtesy that we love to believe is
pect of portraits of professional beauties or famous peculiar to a fine English gentleman. " Here is
pictures made into sachets and the like, bedecked young Lord-; those are the children of ' So-
with frills and ribbons, is a terrible forecast." and-so,'" and a dozen or two of English boys and
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