Other Photographic Journal Pages

British Journal of Photography

1868

In 1868, BJP published:

-  Obituary - Sir David Brewster   [BJP 1868,  p.74]

-  Brief accounts of EPS Meetings  [BJP 1868, pp 53, 80, 116, 128, 151, 257, 476, 511]

-  Papers read to EPS  [BJP, pp 61 , 72, 519]

-  Paper by Mungo Pontin   [BJP 1868,   pp 125, 138]

Artistic Composition

 by W H Davies

A Feature in British Journal of Photography, throughout 1868 was WH Davies' fortnightly articles, perhaps 2000 words in each episode, all on the subject of Artistic Photography.  They were:

BJP Page

Title of Chapter

25

I

Artistic Composition  -  Introductory

49

II

Definition and Elucidation

88

III

Straight Lines - Rigid and Supine

110

IV

Straight Lines of Inclination and Direction

120

V

Straight Lines of Inclination and Direction

146

VI

Curved Lines

169

VII

Harmonising Curved Lines

195

VIII

Lines from Various Points of View

218

IX

The Line of the Horizon

243

X

The Horizon

267

XI

Treatment

301

XII

The Points of a Picture

326

XIII

The Position for a Figure in a Landscape

349

XIV

The Choice of Subject

374

XV

On Perpendicular Lines through the Picture formed by the Arrangements of Objects in the Subject.

397

XVI

Resulting Forms of Combined Lines in Pictures

422

XVII

Consideration of the Various Forms of Composition

447

XVIII

Light and Shade

471

XIX

Light and Shade

507

XX

Light and Shade

531

XXI

Applications of Light and Shade to Landscape

558

XXII

Applications of the Principles of Portraiture

592

XXIII

Conclusion