Цитаты из книг — Джон Жарковский

By the end of the century, for the first time in history, even the poor man knew what his ancestors had looked like.

In 1853 the New York Daily Tribune estimated that three million daguerreotypes were being produced that year. Some of these pictures were the product of knowledge and skill and sensibility and invention; many were the product of accident, improvisation, misunderstanding, and empirical experiment. But whether produced by…

If photography was a new artistic problem, such men had the advantage of having nothing to unlearn.

The invention of photography provided a radically new picter-making process - a process based not only on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put it, were…