Retouchers! Oh what ethical sins have you not to answer for! You compensate for all the crudities and deficiencies of nature.... To round the sharp edges of the features by the transfer of tissue from where it is not wanted to where it is needed.... To fill up the furrows dug by time.... Then enact the chiropodist upon facial excrescences. You do not believe that the man or woman exists who in his or her heart endorses the sentiment of Old Oliver Cromwell about being painted with wrinkles and warts. And you are right.

The Photographic News, London,1890

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