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“A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.” — Edward Steichen
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
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View AllThe use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.— Edward Steichen
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