Grafist@aol.com
Date: 04/23/02-03:49:28 AM Z
In a message dated 23/04/02 06:02:45 GMT Daylight Time, jseigel@panix.com
writes:
> Hi John,
>
> The NY Telephone book lists, just above New York Institute of Surgical
> Hair Replacement,the New York Institute of Photography -- at 211 East 43
> St, at 3rd Avenue. I would assume however that it's a technical
school...........
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Thanks Judy for the info and the added comments which I find quite provoking
and stimulating. Without going into the relevance, or otherwise, of your
Surgical Hair Replacement reference, I would like to quote further from the
introduction:-
>From "Principles of Pictorial Photography",
The author John Wallace Gillies wrote ( 1923 ):-
"We are not going to be too serious in this book. It will be
better reading. While the subject is more or less important, we will not be
too heavy with it.Nothing is serious in this poor world, except perhaps, to
meddle with ideas knowingly, and we do not do that. Many will say that we
touch not upon ideas at all. And yet we do, under the guise of lighter words.
Let him read deeper, into our lightness.
Pictorial Photography is a pleasant thing. It is a great boon to
the man who cannot draw, and yet would create pictures.In fact, most of us
who live in it are persons who late in life find out that we have an impulse
towards picture creation, and have not the skill to set it down in paint or
other medium. We find it out through photography, not having realized the
charm of pictures before taking up the camera. At first we took it up as a
hobby, and made records, as all do, except the few. Then we saw that with the
camera we could make pictures. Hence the pictorial photograph. This is the
history of about ninety percent of pictorial workers.
In this book we are not going to be too technical. It makes dry
reading, and that is criminal. The world is full of dry discourse that nobody
will read. While it is perfectly good material, well written, academic, and
knowing, it is dry. So nobody will read it except those few good souls who
read everything, mostly dry. We are going to see if the idea of pictorial
photography cannot be told practically and simply to the man who does not
know, so that he will understand it."
J.W.Gillies 1923
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I had some of the small repros in the book done as A3 laser copies. Size
does matter.......
Please forgive the character of this posting being more ON TOPIC than of
late.
Have a good summer. John Grocott .Photographist
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