Arthur Hammond - Artistic Quotes

4 Sourced Quotes

View all Arthur Hammond Quotes

So photography, having a place among artistic processes, has its own distinguishing quality which cannot be duplicated by any other medium.

Arthur Hammond

Photography, properly controlled, can render tones better than any other medium of artistic expression, and personal control of exposure and development will be all that is necessary to get good tones and truthful gradations, for the camera, properly guided and then left to do its own job in its own way, will take care of the tones of a picture very well.

Arthur Hammond

The accuracy of the lens is often regarded as infallible, whereas, from the artistic standpoint, a lens is less accurate than the trained eye.

Arthur Hammond

There is a tendency among "advanced" pictorialists to neglect the choice of an interesting subject and to trust to an effective pattern to make their pictures interesting. Such pictures are often interesting, but they are interesting more as studies in artistic technique than as pictures.

Arthur Hammond