Photographic Plates

Famous quotes containing the words photographic and/or plates:

“The photographic image ... is a message without a code.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

“I have experienced such simple delight in the trivial matters of fishing and sporting, formerly, as might have inspired the muse of Homer or Shakespeare; and now, when I turn the pages and ponder the plates of the Angler’s Souvenir, I am fain to exclaim,—
“Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer’s cloud?””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)