DOI Artikel:
Holland, Clive: Artistic photography in Great Britain
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GREAT BRITAIN
has served to show how great a degree of excellence in pure
portraiture can be attained through the medium of the camera
and—artistic perception. Mr. Annan has also from time to time,
produced some distinguished landscape and figure studies. Of his
many portraits none are finer or more convincing than that of
“Professor Young, M.D.,” which is reproduced.
Although Mr. David Blount, whose rise into the first rank of
modern workers has been so rapid, has some quite excellent land-
scape to his credit, it is with his figure studies (of a decorative
character) like “ Honesty,” in the Royal Photographic Society’s
1901 Exhibition, and “Sea Murmurs,” in the Salon of the same
year, and in portraiture that he has shown the greater individualism.
H is fine picture of “ Lady N.” will be remembered by many, and
also his daring “Costume Study, i860,” of last year’s Salon.
The work of Mr. William A. Cadby is widely popular, although its
producer has been a devotee of the camera but a dozen years or so.
Mr. Cadby is yet another example of the process of evolution which
goes to the making of a successful artist in photography, as in
painting and the other arts. His earlier work was concerned very
largely with child models, and some of the most charming and
natural photography that we have in this particular class has come
from his hands. His “Butterflies” is one of the earliest and most
successful studies of the nude by an English worker that we remem-
ber. His later pictures, such as the “Portrait of Mrs. H. Wilson,”
reproduced in the present volume, may be taken as favourably
representing his present day work.
The work of Mr. Alexander Allan, who is such a tower of strength
in that regard to the Scots Salon and other Northern Exhibitions, is
well known. Its main characteristics place it in almost the same
school as that of Frederick Hollyer and Craig Annan, a fine
example being his “ Mary,” hung at the Scots Salon of last year.
Mr. Allan has not, however, confined himself to this class of work, but
has produced from time to time landscapes of distinct individuality
and charm. In the picture reproduced herein some idea of the
sentiment and controlling influence which pervades much of the
work in this genre of Mr. Allan and his brother will be apparent.
The position of Mr. William Crooke as a leader in the school of
portraiture, has been for some years now well assured. Into his work
he has managed to infuse an individuality which, although frequently
imitated by other ambitious but less skilful workers, has never been
entirely without success. Of the many excellent portraits which have
come from the hands of Mr. Crooke, it is difficult indeed to specify
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has served to show how great a degree of excellence in pure
portraiture can be attained through the medium of the camera
and—artistic perception. Mr. Annan has also from time to time,
produced some distinguished landscape and figure studies. Of his
many portraits none are finer or more convincing than that of
“Professor Young, M.D.,” which is reproduced.
Although Mr. David Blount, whose rise into the first rank of
modern workers has been so rapid, has some quite excellent land-
scape to his credit, it is with his figure studies (of a decorative
character) like “ Honesty,” in the Royal Photographic Society’s
1901 Exhibition, and “Sea Murmurs,” in the Salon of the same
year, and in portraiture that he has shown the greater individualism.
H is fine picture of “ Lady N.” will be remembered by many, and
also his daring “Costume Study, i860,” of last year’s Salon.
The work of Mr. William A. Cadby is widely popular, although its
producer has been a devotee of the camera but a dozen years or so.
Mr. Cadby is yet another example of the process of evolution which
goes to the making of a successful artist in photography, as in
painting and the other arts. His earlier work was concerned very
largely with child models, and some of the most charming and
natural photography that we have in this particular class has come
from his hands. His “Butterflies” is one of the earliest and most
successful studies of the nude by an English worker that we remem-
ber. His later pictures, such as the “Portrait of Mrs. H. Wilson,”
reproduced in the present volume, may be taken as favourably
representing his present day work.
The work of Mr. Alexander Allan, who is such a tower of strength
in that regard to the Scots Salon and other Northern Exhibitions, is
well known. Its main characteristics place it in almost the same
school as that of Frederick Hollyer and Craig Annan, a fine
example being his “ Mary,” hung at the Scots Salon of last year.
Mr. Allan has not, however, confined himself to this class of work, but
has produced from time to time landscapes of distinct individuality
and charm. In the picture reproduced herein some idea of the
sentiment and controlling influence which pervades much of the
work in this genre of Mr. Allan and his brother will be apparent.
The position of Mr. William Crooke as a leader in the school of
portraiture, has been for some years now well assured. Into his work
he has managed to infuse an individuality which, although frequently
imitated by other ambitious but less skilful workers, has never been
entirely without success. Of the many excellent portraits which have
come from the hands of Mr. Crooke, it is difficult indeed to specify
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