A Few Plain Answers to Common Questions Regarding Photography (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Q Are they true likenesses. 9 A. Yes° truth is stamped upon them all. Yet some of them shew how disagreeable truth may9 in some eases9 he made to appear. The veriest tyro in painting;9 that ever tried his prentice hand npon the human face divine,'probably never produced greater monstrosities than have oooasionaily been perpetrated by this art; While, on the other hand, it has pro dnoed gems as sweet as Raphaehever painted. No ideal Ma donna and Child can surpass a really good Daguerreotype of a Young Mother, and her Baby° in short, the good are very good, while the bad are very had.

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