Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs (1898)
Middleton, G. A. T. (George Alexander Thomas) · London : Hazell, Watson, & Viney · leaf 41
aking a view ofa front dead-on. All mystery immediately vanishes, and 38 Architectural Photography. an architectural diagram of an elevational character isobtained in place of a picture, with all the educationalvalue of a measured elevation drawing lost through theforeshortening due to perspective,… … South Porch, Dol Cathedral. lines of the main front have a vanishing point, though itmay be a distant one. As an example of what is meant,the west front of Amiens Cathedral is illustrated—one ofthe very finest Gothic facades in Europe, and one whichwould make a fine elevational drawing; but a…
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