Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization, people will usually question the use of a picture. Things are estimated much more for what they do or will do than for what they are or will become... . 

 Still life subjects will often reflect a clearer picture of a photographic artist’s imaginative vision than landscape work, which is usually more dependent on the choice of a point of view than open anything else; or portraiture, in which the photographer must somewhat subordinate his own personality to that of his sitter.