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No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

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After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism.

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The aim and end of the artist is not truth exactly, much less fact; it is effect... There is no doubt he [the photographer] best gets his effect by way of truth, but he uses it as he would a servant, not a master.

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Henry Peach Robinson

Henry Peach Robinson

Born: July 9, 1830
Died: February 21, 1901 (aged 70)
Bio: Henry Peach Robinson was an English pictorialist photographer best known for his pioneering combination printing - joining multiple negatives or prints to form a single image; an early example of photomontage.
Known for:
  1. Picture-making by photography (1884)
  2. The elements of a pictorial photograph (1896)
  3. The art and practice of silver printing (1881)
  4. The studio: and what to do in it (1885)

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