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item, and Ingres won applause with his painting of clean-edged light and shade.

The desire for the exact and unlimited detail and smooth chiaroscuro was probably the incentive that started Fox Talbott on the search that discovered the negative-positive process of photography.

p 77-78

Logic and sensibility are aboard the same train even though they ride in separate cars and disconcert each other when they meet. While they thought they were traveling towards something "minutely accurate, mechanically initiative," the train has whirled away through the night somewhere north of illusion and west of dream.

p 83-84

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Somebody once said that you can really see works of art for half an hour, then the next half an hour you check off the existence of things, after that you just wander about hoping for some indecency.

p 174

"... scenery hurts my eyes"

script by Anita Loos, said by Douglas Fairbanks in "The Americano" 1916.

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SHORT DISTANCES AND DEFINITE PLACES

Title for a book of photographs, from W H Auden "In praise of Limestone p 414 col. poem

W H Auden, a Biography by Humphrey Carpenter 1981

'Auden, despite his perceptiveness, lacked some-thing in human relationships. He forced issues too much, made everyone too conscious of himself and therefore was in the position of an observer who is a disturbing force in the behaviour he observes. Sometimes he gave the impression of playing an intellectual game with himself and with others and