“Fundamentally, the camera is nothing more than a light-tight box, having an arrangement for holding a light-sensitive substance (plate or film) and a device (lens or pinhole) for projecting on this sensitive substance an image of objects external to the camera.”

— Paul Lewis Anderson

Source: Pictorial Photography - It's Principles and Practice (1917), Chapter I - The Camera, p. 1

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