Selected critical essays on photography. Portrait painting and portrait photography -- A plea for the picturesqueness of New York -- On plagiarism and imitation -- Random thoughts on criticism -- On composition -- On genre -- A photographic enquête -- The influence of artistic photography on interior decoration -- Repetition with slight variation -- The Photo-Secession exhibition at the Carnegie Art Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pa. -- A plea for straight photography -- The broken plates (a short story) -- The Salon Club and the First American Photographic Salon at New York -- Recent conquests in night photography -- On the possibility of new laws of composition -- Unphotographic paint : the texture of impressionism -- The daguerreotype -- What remains -- The esthetic significance of the motion picture.
Profiles of photographic pioneers. Alfred Stieglitz : an art critic's estimate -- Zaida Ben-Yúsuf : a purist -- Frank Eugene : painter-photographer -- Clarence H. White : a meteor through space -- F. Holland Day : a decorative photographer -- Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. : master of the foreground -- Gertrude Käsebier : a sense of the pictorial -- Edward Steichen : a visit to Steichen's studio -- H.H. Pierce : a traveling photographer -- Elias Goldensky : in the proletarian interest -- J.H. Garo : wanderer on new roads -- B.J. Falk : an exquisite temperament -- J.C. Strauss : the man behind the gun -- Joseph Byron : "the stage is my studio" -- Burr McIntosh : photographer of fads and fancies -- Guido Rey: a master of detail composition -- Alvin Langdon Coburn : Secession portraiture -- Rudolf Dührkoop : a German pictorialist -- E.S. Curtis : photo-historian -- Pirie MacDonald : psychology in portraiture -- Bessie Buehrmann : under the influence of the Secession -- Meredith Janvier : with a rush -- F. Benedict Herzog : a master of decorative composition -- Frederick I. Monsen : the stamp of reality -- Arnold Genthe : a photographer of Japan -- Maude Wilson : poet of sunshine and mist -- J.E. Mock : a study in backgrounds.
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