Clarence H. White (1871-1925) Telegraph Poles, Newark, Ohio, 1898. Camera Work N°3, 1903. Photogravure d'époque sur papier Japon. Image : 18,9 x 10,5 cm Feuille : 30,5 x 21 cm "The most notable instance of Mr. White's ability to extract beauty from the homeliest material is the print entitled Telegraph Poles. The scene appears to be a canal, on the banks of which are poles and irregular buildings, separated by vacant spaces, like teeth and stumps and gaps in an old crone's jaw-an unsightly, even squalid, spot, at least to the stranger; but to the man who has seen it under all sorts of aspects of light and weather, moreover, with an artist's eye, alive to the abstract fascination of mere lines and masses, of mingled variety of tone, this most unsuggestive subject has revealed possibilities which have yielded an original and strikingly beautiful picture." Charles H. Caffin, Photography as a Fine Art : The Achievements and Possibilities of Photographic Art in America, New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901.