Photograms of the Year, 1916

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Excerpt from Photograms of the Year, 1916: The Annual Review of the World's Pictorial Photographic Work My Models (plate LVIII.) are a most engaging pair, vivacious and strikingly alive. It has worthy artistic qualities. We may dwell on the title The Call of the Sea (plate by Arthur F. Kales. What a world of fancy-free is presented to the maiden who sits aloft! There is romance in that space. The sea is lovely in romance, in aspects as our Editor perhaps alone among us knows it, it is a living, never-sleeping devil. Those who know the sea best look on it with awe. We will leave this maiden to her call. A few years more for her, and the call of the sea may be forgotten in the call of him! Mr. F. C. Tilney, in his recently published book The Appeal of the Picture, written to aid art students and pictorial photographers, points out the importance in religious, shall I say portraiture of symmetry. He puts his arguments clearly and cogently. They bear on Mrs. M. Pearson's Mlle. Rambert as Virgin of the Intercession - Dona Nobis Pacem (plate The picture seems to lose a little in reverential effect by the accident of the head not being central. Cover up the required portion on the left and note the slight but completing increase of dignity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.