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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3948, 26 October 1891, Page 2

" Art is tfie Eight Hand of Nature." > ___ > —Schiller, PHOTOGRAPHY A FINE ART. Embodying Taste, Knowledge, and Experience. >OKTRAITURE is its most popular form. The pleasurable resolve to have a likeness taken, frequently means a haphazard rush to any Photographer to the first, in fact, who comes. Dissatisfaction follows. Good results cm be ensured only by selecting a qualified man— an expert who has made his profession a definite study. One of thk Few in .New Zealand who is a thoroughly Mr R. HERRMANN, Of Cuba Street, Wellington, he having graduated in photography at the Polytechnic Institute of Brunswick, Germany. His acknowledged skill is thus the result of five years special study and twenty years practical experience. Mr Herrmann has therefore Ion? passed the experimental stage, and stfumformly regular is his work that he can confidently GUARANTEE A LIKENESS both lifelike and artistically perfect The increasing patronage of the Cuba Street Gallery, where not only is the cost the lowfst, but where the work is best, b sufficient endorsement. j

Mr Herrmann's latest improvement is the introducton of his NEW INSTANTANEOUS PROOESS whereby stiffness of posture is impossible, as the sitter is not rendered both nervous and uncomfortable by mechanical suppotts for the head, so commonly used by incompetent operators. Clear outlines are ensured and a most pleasing picture follows. This process is wonderfully successful WITH CHILDREN'. A BEAUTIFUL FINISH is also imparted by the matt-opal style of photography. In this department, Mr Herrmann excels,and he is the only photographer in Wellington who can assure that remarkable softness and beauty of finish *liich is essential to true photography on opal. WAIEARAPA PEOPLE should make a point of visiting Mr Herrmann's Cuba Street Studio (opposite Te Aro House) when in Wellington. They WIIL NOT ONLY GET EMINENTLY SATISFACTORY PHOTOGRAPHS, BUT THEY WILL SAVE MONEY WHILE DOING SO. tilducHtlonal I_>euo»ltorv Master ton. NEW BOOKS, AND 13" NEW EDITIONS. «s* Diary of a Pilgrimage For so Little Secret of the Princess Marcia One of our Conquerers Gallant Heroes and Gallant Fights Evenings at Home English in the West Indies Teeming Millions of the East Josiah Allen's Wife Samantha, and othets by same author Academy Votes New Gallery Pictures Summer Number of Pictorial World, with picture \geut for Stonn's Wellington directory, Price 10s Gd Rawson's May of the District, Price 2s. SCHOOL REQUISITES. SOLE AGENT FOR EVENING PBESS. R. T. HOLMES. LATE J. P. INNES.