“Size, the mere number of square inches, of a picture, counts for nothing. A small picture may be quite as satisfying as a large; for remember that, as compared with the size of the mountain itself, the difference between a picture of it, thirty inches long, and one of six inches, is less than trifling.”

— Alfred Horsley Hinton

Source: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Development of negatives, p. 108

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British photographer 1863–1908

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