The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
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As I hold the future well-being of photography very dear I must see to it that these forces which militate against it be opposed and destroyed.
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Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
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