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Astonishing Picture Is Fully: By 1837 Daguerre had made a highly successful photograph—a still life of plaster casts, a wicker-covered bottle, a framed drawing, and a drapery. This astonishing picture is fully detailed, showing a wide range of tones between highlight and shadow, convincing realism in texture, contour, and volume. It still exists, signed and dated, in the collection of the Societe Franchise de Photographic in Paris. The earliest surviving example of what Daguerre now called the daguerreotype, it exhibits the potentials of a new graphic medium that was to revolutionize picture making.As social photographers they shied away from the word "artistic," and the voluminous literature of the movement is insistent that documentary film is not art. "Beauty is one of the greatest dangers to documentary," wrote the producer-director Paul Rotha in his Documentary Film.6 He came to the astonishing conclusion that photography —the very life blood and essence of the motion picture— was of secondary importance and if too good might prove detrimental. Yet Grierson wrote that documentary was from the beginning ... an 'anti-aesthetic' movement .
Everything suggested in that chapter applies fully to the publicity photographer, except that it should be the policy of the publicity photographer, paid by the client for prothat the girl is good to look at, and the picture is appreciated for what it is. This is simply a part of American folklore. |
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