“It must ever be borne in mind that the prime object of all fine arts is to please through some or other of the emotions which it stirs.”

— Alfred Horsley Hinton

Source: Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, Fidelity to nature and justifiable untruth, p.3

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British photographer 1863–1908

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