Camera Work: Issue Number 26
$3,900 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books
Much of modern art has for its motif exact representation of facts, cleverly rendered, or arrangements of tones and lines--the exterior of things. Why spend years of labor to achieve this result, which any one with an educated taste can accomplish, barring color, with a machine?... The phrase 'work of art' will in time be used more sparingly, and will designate creations of a mind gifted with poetic and imaginative insight. If the camera by its very limitations can further this point of
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