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To learn to see pictorially is the first essential duty of the would-be picture-maker.

— Arthur Hammond

What It Means

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About Arthur Hammond

Arthur Hammond (1880 - 1962) was a pictorialist photographer, who has written books like Pictorial Composition in Photography.