“Photography itself may err by inaccurately rendering the relative tones in Nature. Then we shall have to ask, What is " Tone "?…”

—  Alfred Horsley Hinton

Source: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, How expression may be given to a picture, p. 34

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