Groups of figures take no longer to obtain than single figures would require … but at present we cannot succeed in this art without previous concert and arrangement … but when a group of Persons has been artistically arranged, and trained by little practice to maintain an absolute immobility for a few seconds of time, very delightful pictures are easily obtained.

"The Pencil of Nature", cited in: "From today painting is dead – The Beginnings of Photography" (catalogue of exhibition in The Victoria & Albert Museum 16 March – 14 May 1972 p. 29)

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