Twelve years later, after the opening of his studio, he published his first, and what would be his most legendary book, “Pictorial Effect In Photography: Being Hints On Composition And Chiaroscuro For Photographers.” The suggestions revealed by pages of ink are what set fuel to the ingrained conflagration of the Pictorialism Movement. It became one of the most notable classics in reference to the focus of the demonstration, ushering photographers to be, as Meghan just as consciously aware of composition, contrast, and color while framing and staging their image “as a painter might be in constructing an image on canvas” (Maloney, n.d.).
