, 'That picture
pleases me, and I vote for it,' without attempting to state in
mathematical form the qualities of its success as a picture?"

"I would say that the first thing a man should do in judging pictures is
to answer the appeal of the picture. I think a picture should have a
message--that is, it should convey, not necessarily a story, but something
of the feeling of the man who produced it. This is really a difficult
question to answer. I would say, 'That picture pleases me and I vote for
it.' That is to say, so many points for technique and so many points for
pictorial quality would mean nothing to me. I would insist that a picture
have an appeal, and then that it have good construction, and it should
have quality. The printing medium, as I have said, doesn't make the
picture, but the man who uses it."

MOTION PICTURES AND THE SOFT FOCUS LENS

"Probably photography's greatest activity at present is in the motion
picture field. Have soft focus lenses been used for producing screen plays
and with what result?"

"Soft focus lenses are being used in motion picture photography, but I am
doubtful as to their success in the way they are being used at present--a
somewhat haphazard way. You are too conscious of the soft focus lens and
of the anastigmatic lens. That is, one part of the picture is made with a
soft focus lens and one with an anastigmatic. I believe that the soft
focus lens can be used, and will be used, in such a way as to give
beautiful results on the screen."

IS PHOTOGRAPHY TO REMAIN A BLACK AND WHITE ART?

"What forecast, Mr.White, do you make of future developments in
photography? Is it to remain a black and white art, or are photographs in
natural colors to supersede the familiar photograph of the present day in
our exhibitions and in our homes?"

"I think that the fundamental expression of photography is in black and
white, and as we develop what I would call the definite photographic
quality, black and white will maintain its present ascendency."

"But don't you expect the art to develop in different directions from what
it is today and what it has been in the past?"

"I think it will develop especially in a more marked sense of picture
construction."

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HOW WE MAKE OUR PHOTOGRAPHS

_Methods of Several Representative Workers in Pictorial Photography Are
Given Below. T