Digital BW, The Print

Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, writing about the members of the London
Photographic Society, in 1857:

"The very talk of these photographic members is unlike that of any other
men, either of business or pleasure. Their style is made up of the driest
facts, the longest words, the most high-flown rhapsodies. Slight
improvements in processes, and slight varieties in conclusions, are
discussed as if they involved the welfare of mankind. They seek each
other's sympathy, and they resent each other's interference, with an ardour
of expression at variance with all the sobrieties of business and the
habits of reserve..."

[from Classic Essays on Photography, ed. by Alan Trachtenberg]


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