"Taking photographs is getting simpler and easier all the time. Most of the basic technical problems have been solved during the last ten or twenty years, and the various steps in producing the picture have been streamlined to a degree where success is achieved almost automatically. Gadgets, accessories, newly invented instruments off all kinds not only successfully substitute for the skill and experience without which no photograph could have been taken yesterday, but even lead to results which yesterday would have been considered impossible."
From "Feininger On Photography" by Andreas Feininger
chapter 1, The Making of a Photographer
first edition, 1949
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