DOI issue:
No. 156 (March, 1906)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0180
Studio- Talk
water-colour drawing by miss a. bauerle
at poetry and that sugges-
tion of romance which is
of the essence of such im-
aginative painting. The
presence of imagination in
his work, his evident ability
to approach nature from an
individual standpoint, is
the foundation of his suc-
cess. Moreover, being a
colourist who has humbly
learnt of nature herself, Bw M
Mr. Thomas's work never
exceeds the laws of restraint
which nature alone teaches.
fection in results. Mr.
George Bernard Shaw has
written a preface to the
catalogue of the exhibition
which is remarkable for its
warm appreciation of Mr.
Coburn's work. Without
agreeing with all he says, we
can endorse that eminent
critic's opinion when he
says that the decisive qua-
lity in a photographer is the
faculty of seeing certain
things and being tempted
by them, and that it is Mr.
Coburn's vision and sus-
ceptibility that make his
work interesting.
As mentioned by us last
month, the Royal Photo-
graphic Society are'holding
an exhibition of Mr. Alvin
Langdon Coburn's work at
the Society's house, 66 Rus-
sell Squarej and we here-
with reproduce a further
example of it. Mr. Coburn
approaches photography in
a truly artistic spirit, yet
without ignoring the laws
which make its science so
difficult to approach on a
purely artistic plane. The
exhibition is constituted of
a series of successes in over-
coming the many difficulties
that line the way to per- landscape by grosvenor thomas
160
water-colour drawing by miss a. bauerle
at poetry and that sugges-
tion of romance which is
of the essence of such im-
aginative painting. The
presence of imagination in
his work, his evident ability
to approach nature from an
individual standpoint, is
the foundation of his suc-
cess. Moreover, being a
colourist who has humbly
learnt of nature herself, Bw M
Mr. Thomas's work never
exceeds the laws of restraint
which nature alone teaches.
fection in results. Mr.
George Bernard Shaw has
written a preface to the
catalogue of the exhibition
which is remarkable for its
warm appreciation of Mr.
Coburn's work. Without
agreeing with all he says, we
can endorse that eminent
critic's opinion when he
says that the decisive qua-
lity in a photographer is the
faculty of seeing certain
things and being tempted
by them, and that it is Mr.
Coburn's vision and sus-
ceptibility that make his
work interesting.
As mentioned by us last
month, the Royal Photo-
graphic Society are'holding
an exhibition of Mr. Alvin
Langdon Coburn's work at
the Society's house, 66 Rus-
sell Squarej and we here-
with reproduce a further
example of it. Mr. Coburn
approaches photography in
a truly artistic spirit, yet
without ignoring the laws
which make its science so
difficult to approach on a
purely artistic plane. The
exhibition is constituted of
a series of successes in over-
coming the many difficulties
that line the way to per- landscape by grosvenor thomas
160