DOI article:
Holland, Clive: Artistic photography in Great Britain
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GREAT BRITAIN
Mr. C. H. L. Emanuel’s work has not without some reason been
compared with that of R. Eickemeyer. The delicate example,
“ The House on the Wall,” which has been selected for repro-
duction, is fairly representative of the spirit and beauty of tone which
last year gave us “A Gateway to Fairyland,” hung in the Salon.
His “Old Paris” of the same date was a notable achievement.
Mr. Graystone Bird’s work is well known to all makers and users
of lantern slides, and to those who have attended the various
Exhibitions of the last few years. The landscape selected for repro-
duction in the present volume shows one aspect of his work which
has a distinctly H. P. Robinson character. He has done excellent
pictorial work in other fields, more particularly that of studies of
children, marked by technique of an unusually high order.
Mr. Cruwys Richards is a delicate worker in the fields of artistic
portraiture which comes between a “ likeness ” and a figure study,
and of flowers. Two excellent examples of his work have been
selected : “ Briar Rose,” hung at the Salon in 1903, and “ Flowers.”
The latter is a study in colours, a variety of photographic work to
which Mr. Richards has recently devoted so much attention.
Amongst promising new comers are Messrs. G. Vialls and Edward
Hepburn, examples of whose work are reproduced.
To attempt a mere mention of other workers who have taken
deservedly high positions amongst the many pictorial workers of
Great Britain would only lead to unintentional and unavoidable
omissions. Both their names and work will in many instances
immediately occur to those who have watched at all closely the
developments of the artistic and pictorial side of photography
during the last decade.
CLIVE HOLLAND.
G B l6
Mr. C. H. L. Emanuel’s work has not without some reason been
compared with that of R. Eickemeyer. The delicate example,
“ The House on the Wall,” which has been selected for repro-
duction, is fairly representative of the spirit and beauty of tone which
last year gave us “A Gateway to Fairyland,” hung in the Salon.
His “Old Paris” of the same date was a notable achievement.
Mr. Graystone Bird’s work is well known to all makers and users
of lantern slides, and to those who have attended the various
Exhibitions of the last few years. The landscape selected for repro-
duction in the present volume shows one aspect of his work which
has a distinctly H. P. Robinson character. He has done excellent
pictorial work in other fields, more particularly that of studies of
children, marked by technique of an unusually high order.
Mr. Cruwys Richards is a delicate worker in the fields of artistic
portraiture which comes between a “ likeness ” and a figure study,
and of flowers. Two excellent examples of his work have been
selected : “ Briar Rose,” hung at the Salon in 1903, and “ Flowers.”
The latter is a study in colours, a variety of photographic work to
which Mr. Richards has recently devoted so much attention.
Amongst promising new comers are Messrs. G. Vialls and Edward
Hepburn, examples of whose work are reproduced.
To attempt a mere mention of other workers who have taken
deservedly high positions amongst the many pictorial workers of
Great Britain would only lead to unintentional and unavoidable
omissions. Both their names and work will in many instances
immediately occur to those who have watched at all closely the
developments of the artistic and pictorial side of photography
during the last decade.
CLIVE HOLLAND.
G B l6