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"La photographie est une découverte merveilleuse,
une science qui occupe les intelligences les plus élevées,
un art qui aiguise les esprits les plus sagaces
et dont l’application est à la portée du dernier des imbéciles."
— Félix Tournachon, dit Nadar (1857)
"Photography is a wonderful discovery,
a science which occupies the highest intelligences,
an art which sharpens the most sagacious minds and
whose application is to reach the last fools."
— Félix Tournachon, aka Nadar (1857)
This was said more then 150 years ago!
At the time, there were no "auto everything" cameras.
• If Nadar called them "last fools" then… what would he call them today?
• Aware that he could not have known the future developments in photography,
do you think this judgement would still apply today?
What do you say?