Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a few det….

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854).

Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by repro….