Abstract
FOR some years past a conviction has been growing amongst the better class of professional photographers that their art alone, even under the most perfect conditions, is unable to produce an artistically perfect portrait, a proposition, by the way, for which the true artist has all along contended in the face of the constant assertion of the converse by fanatical advocates of “sun-painting” pur et simple. The victory having at last rested with the artists, a number of books on retouching have been published, each professing to give the true method of at once producing artistic pictures.
Concise Instructions in the Art of Retouching.
By Burrows Colton, (London: Marion and Co, 22 and 23, Soho Square, 1876.)
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F., R. Concise Instructions in the Art of Retouching . Nature 15, 156 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/015156a0
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