"A photographer only knows - only he can appreciate the difficulty of getting a view satisfactorily into the camera: foregrounds are especially perverse; distances too near or too far; the falling away of the ground; the intervention of some brick wall or other commonplace object, which an artist would simply omit; some or all of these things (with plenty of others of a similar character) are the rule, not the exception. I have often thought, when manoeuvring about for a position for my camera, of the exclamation of the great mechanist of antiquity - 'Give me a fulcrum for my lever, and I will move the world.' Oh what pictures we would make, if we could command our points of view!"
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