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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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