The Mentor: Photography, Vol. 6, Num. 12, Serial No. 160, August 1, 1918

This issue of The Mentor on photography draws on Paul Lewis Anderson (1880-1956), the American pictorialist photographer and teacher who was a leading advocate of photography as a fine art. Anderson wrote influential manuals on technique and aesthetics and championed the soft-focus pictorial style. The Mentor was a popular American educational magazine, and this number introduced general readers to the art and craft of the camera. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.