DOI article:
Holland, Clive: Artistic photography in Great Britain
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GREAT BRITAIN
have, perhaps, not become so closely identified with any particular
branch as most of those workers we have in the foregoing pages
been able roughly to classify.
Few English pictorial photographers are better known, in this
country, in the United States, and also on the Continent, than
Mr. John C. Warburg. In the Salon of 1900 was hung a picture
by him, “ A Carpenter’s Shop, Holland,” which, by its sketchiness,
gave strong indications of the general trend of his work and aims.
“ On Halcyon Seas,” shown at the Royal Photographic Society in
1903, was a further development along the lines of the work and
methods of Rudolf Eickemeyer. As regards delicate tonality, his
picture, “ The Shadow of the Cliffs,” is equal in charm and origin-
ality to anything we have seen of Mr. Warburg’s. At the same
time it may be taken as representative of his best work, both as
regards method and subject.
Mr. Arthur Marshall, whose picture, “From Darkness unto Dawn,”
in the Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society in 1903, aroused
so much interest and criticism, has followed up that success with
several other notable pictures of an original and poetic character of
a similar type. His “ Devotion,” an impressive rendering of a child
kneeling at the foot of a statue of the Virgin at a wayside shrine, in
last year’s Exhibition, though in a measure following up the sentiment
of his previous year’s success, struck a new note. In “ Hauling
Sail,” which has been selected for reproduction, his work is seen in
a new aspect.
Although one of the most important aspects of Mr. W. Thomas’s
work is well represented by his fine shipping study, “ Windless,”
reproduced herein, he has also many beautiful landscapes to his
credit. Of these “A Yorkshire Trout Stream,” seen in the Royal
Photographic Society’s 1897 Exhibition, and his “Ebb of a Winter’s
Day,” a snow scene with a figure well placed in the middle distance
and a fine sky, are notable examples.
From Mr. Archibald Cochrane quite a variety of work has come
during the last few years, most of it marked by great individuality
of treatment and sentiment. His “ Quarry Team,” reproduced
herein, is a good example of his methods and pictorial feeling rather
than indicating the class of work to which he has devoted most
attention. His “Night Summons,” horse artillery at a gallop, with
the heads of the riders seen against the sky, was a notable achieve-
ment, both pictorially and from a sense of movement and elan with
which it was inspired. In portraiture he has also done good and
successful work.
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have, perhaps, not become so closely identified with any particular
branch as most of those workers we have in the foregoing pages
been able roughly to classify.
Few English pictorial photographers are better known, in this
country, in the United States, and also on the Continent, than
Mr. John C. Warburg. In the Salon of 1900 was hung a picture
by him, “ A Carpenter’s Shop, Holland,” which, by its sketchiness,
gave strong indications of the general trend of his work and aims.
“ On Halcyon Seas,” shown at the Royal Photographic Society in
1903, was a further development along the lines of the work and
methods of Rudolf Eickemeyer. As regards delicate tonality, his
picture, “ The Shadow of the Cliffs,” is equal in charm and origin-
ality to anything we have seen of Mr. Warburg’s. At the same
time it may be taken as representative of his best work, both as
regards method and subject.
Mr. Arthur Marshall, whose picture, “From Darkness unto Dawn,”
in the Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society in 1903, aroused
so much interest and criticism, has followed up that success with
several other notable pictures of an original and poetic character of
a similar type. His “ Devotion,” an impressive rendering of a child
kneeling at the foot of a statue of the Virgin at a wayside shrine, in
last year’s Exhibition, though in a measure following up the sentiment
of his previous year’s success, struck a new note. In “ Hauling
Sail,” which has been selected for reproduction, his work is seen in
a new aspect.
Although one of the most important aspects of Mr. W. Thomas’s
work is well represented by his fine shipping study, “ Windless,”
reproduced herein, he has also many beautiful landscapes to his
credit. Of these “A Yorkshire Trout Stream,” seen in the Royal
Photographic Society’s 1897 Exhibition, and his “Ebb of a Winter’s
Day,” a snow scene with a figure well placed in the middle distance
and a fine sky, are notable examples.
From Mr. Archibald Cochrane quite a variety of work has come
during the last few years, most of it marked by great individuality
of treatment and sentiment. His “ Quarry Team,” reproduced
herein, is a good example of his methods and pictorial feeling rather
than indicating the class of work to which he has devoted most
attention. His “Night Summons,” horse artillery at a gallop, with
the heads of the riders seen against the sky, was a notable achieve-
ment, both pictorially and from a sense of movement and elan with
which it was inspired. In portraiture he has also done good and
successful work.
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