A revengeful God has given ear to the prayers of this multitude. Daguerre was his Messiah. And now the faithful says to himself: "Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing."

["Perspectives on Landscape" edited by Bill Gaskins (British Image 5), Arts Council of Great Britain, London 1978, p. 6]

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