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Alfred Horsley Hinton was an English landscape photographer, best known for his work in the pictorialist movement in the 1890s and early 1900s. As an original member of the Linked Ring and editor of The Amateur Photographer, he was one of the movement's staunchest advocates. Hinton wrote nearly a dozen books on photographic technique, and his photographs were exhibited at expositions throughout Europe and North America. Wikipedia  

✵ 1863 – 25. Febbraio 1908
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“The sky is as much an essential part of the picture as any other part of it, and indeed, in very many instances, constitutes the key-note and important feature of the whole idea.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Clouds. Their use, and practical instructions as to how to photography them, p. 92

“We are then brought to consider Platinotype, which, on the whole, may be regarded as the most suitable for general pictorial work. Its power of rendering relative tones and atmosphere is perhaps unequalled, whilst, although every one who has used it has sometimes wished that the undeveloped image were more visible, yet the pale, ghost-like print made by the light is very much better than nothing at all, and, indeed, may often be quite sufficient to guide us in our endeavours to control the action of light in a manner to be shortly described.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Printing methods and their bearing on pictorial photography, p. 72

“Both with the negative in position and subsequently without it, every part of a large print is, maybe, thus printed in, piece by piece, a large print often occupying me two or three days.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Printing the picture and controlling its formation, p. 88

“He (the photographer) has practically created a new thing out of materials gathered from nature; upon a foundation of fact he has allowed his imagination to build up an entirely fictitious scene, and the truth of the effect will depend upon how far his perceptions have been trained by studying nature at various times, so as to know how things might look under certain circumstances.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Printing the picture and controlling its formation, p. 78

“It is often difficult and well-nigh impossible, when using the lens, to get all planes in moderate focus without getting one or some part excessively so, and similarly, if we avoid excessive sharpness in each and every part, some planes, such as the extreme distance or immediate foreground, so broken up as to destroy form and structure. Then it is that the pin-hole, with its equal focus in all planes and at any focal length, seems to recommend itself; but if it be desired to emphasize any object, by introducing more detail there than elsewhere, then the uniform sharpness of the pin-hole image fails us.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Pin-hole as a substitute for the lens, p. 60

“It must not be supposed that it is always necessary to present our landscapes with an attractive and well-defined arrangement of clouds; on the contrary, it will often happen that the effect of a scene is best emphasized by a mere grey tint representing a covered sky or even a blue, cloudless sky; but this is a very different thing to rendering it as a white blank.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Composition and clouds considered as an aid to expression, p. 105

“In such a picture the artist may depart from actual fact, from what actually was, so long as he does not exceed what might have been.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Printing the picture and controlling its formation, p. 78

“We know the mountain peaks are lofty, and we think of them so, and we mentally enlarge them, but not the cottage at their foot, or the trees half way up.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, The use of the lens in pictorial work, p. 57

“The composition may be ever so carefully worked out, but it must appear unconsciously done. And so it will be best in most cases to depart slightly from precise and symmetrical arrangement, as though unintentionally, lest the endeavor to obey artificial rules betrays itself.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Methods - The practical application of means to end, p. 20

“The chief characteristic of the pin-hole photograph is that we get a general suppression of focus in all parts the picture is nowhere quite sharp.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Pin-hole as a substitute for the lens, p. 60

“Justification must be sought in the fact that "no very great incongruity is observable."”

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Origine: Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, Clouds in their relation to the landscape, p. 27

“Hence SELECTION in photography, or at least in landscape and some other branches of work, often takes the place of what in painting becomes voluntary COMPOSITION.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Methods - The practical application of means to end, p. 28

“But the quality of the result obtained by using a pin-hole to which its advocates attach most importance is the suppression of sharp focus over the whole image, no one plane being more sharply focused than another.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Pin-hole as a substitute for the lens, p. 61

“I have sometimes felt that writers on the artistic aspect of photography have too often, like the reformers of religious creeds, led their followers into a condition of disbelief and unrest, and then left them to find out for themselves how to live up to new and vague beliefs, so many writers on Pictorial Photography have told us what to avoid without saying why, and have then told us what to do without showing how.”

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Origine: Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, p. 2

“The louder a sound is, the more we recognize it as being near, so the louder the "tone" of objects that is, the blacker or whiter the nearer they seem; and so if in our picture we wish to give a sense of distance, we must see that the darkest shadows and highest lights are in the foreground : and because we may not be able to materially alter things as the undiscriminating process gives them to us, we must seek for and select those scenes, those subjects, in which this arrangement of highest and deepest tones do come in the foreground, and then take care that our process renders them with fidelity, so that we may not lose the sense of their nearness or the feeling of greater distance of other planes which it is intended they shall give.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Tone and atmoshphere, p. 44-45

“…the purpose of a picture is not veracity to fact so much as truthfulness to idea; that is to say, it is not a question of what eye sees nor even what the brain imagines, but it is a question of what kind of production best awakens in the mind of the beholder the ideas which the maker of the picture desires him to receive.”

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Origine: Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, The consideration of some examples of sharp and suppressed definition, p. 37

“It is the subjects which might be imitated by pieces of paper of varying depth of color laid one over the other, which are the subjects that will give more readily the greater satisfaction.”

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Origine: Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, Some examples in composition, p. 60

“If the reader now asks what do I think of this paper or that process, of this brand of plates or of that? Is intensification or reduction to be resorted to? Are enlargements as good as direct work? I have but one answer to all, and that is that only those methods are good which will give you a satisfactory realization of the idea you have in mind. Any paper or process which will do this is good. If an enlargement from a small negative seems to give a fairly satisfactory expression of the idea intended, and the smaller direct print fails, there is your answer; and neither the writer or any one else has any knowledge which can give you a better.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Development of negatives, p. 107

“…to be able to say of a representation that it is "exactly like Nature " is by no means equivalent to saying that it is a fine picture.”

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Origine: Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, Fidelity to nature and justifiable untruth, p. 3

“It must ever be borne in mind that the prime object of all fine arts is to please through some or other of the emotions which it stirs.”

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Origine: Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, Fidelity to nature and justifiable untruth, p.3

“In selecting our subject…there are two factors which it should be borne in mind are essential, and these are Expression and Composition”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Methods - The practical application of means to end, p. 16

“The texture of the printed image is of such peculiar character that neither brush or liquid paint seem capable of imitating it.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Printing the picture and controlling its formation, p. 90

“… what the photographer has to be urged, persuaded and argued with, to do, are often matters which the artist never needs to think about, because it would be unnatural to him not to act in unconscious obedience thereto.”

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Origine: Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, Fidelity to nature and justifiable untruth, p. 3

“There is a difference in printing greater depth to any portion with the negative and shading down without the negative. In the former case we get a deeper and stronger image, still preserving to a great extent the relative contrasts between the lights and shades in that portion. This is not always what we require. In order to concentrate attention upon that is, to emphasize, some particular spot, it may be desirable to shade down and flatten some portion.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Printing the picture and controlling its formation, p. 88

“Probably every photographer has at times found it convenient to print one part of a negative more than another or lias covered another portion during printing, thus deliberately making those portions lighter or darker, as the case may be.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Printing the picture and controlling its formation, p. 76

“In selecting our subject then we have two things to consider. First, is it as good as the conditions will let it be - that is, have we chosen the point of view which, with the present conditions, shows at its best pictorially, and secondly, if taken from this point now, are the alterations we would like, weather or light, to make for us of such a kind that we can introduce them for ourselves when printing, and, if so, what are those alterations.”

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Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, Some practical suggestions on the selection of the subject and a note on the subject of motive

“The moment the eye perceives that the picture is produced by other than the professed means, the effect, the appeal to the imagination, is disturbed.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Printing the picture and controlling its formation, p. 90

“A picture whether or not it is really true to fact must above all things appear true.”

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Origine: Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, Clouds in their relation to the landscape, p. 29

“…he (a photographer) forgets that unless he has learnt when the tones of a picture are right or not, he will not know whether his work is good or bad, nor know what to try and overcome in future.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, The photographic print, p. 36

“…the strongest part of a picture is the sensation and the feeling which it creates, this being done through the agency of certain familiar objects more or less accurately depicted and represented with more or less completeness.
The MOTIVE, then, in all pictorial work is to convey some thought or idea or sensation by means of a chosen subject.”

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Origine: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, The application of the foregoing principles, p. 12