It is the subjects which might be imitated by pieces of paper of varying depth of color laid one over the other, which are the subjects that will giv… - Alfred Horsley Hinton

A picture whether or not it is really true to fact must above all things appear true.

...but record and recognition are not pictorial qualities.

We are then brought to consider Platinotype, which, on the whole, may be regarded as the most suitable for general pictorial work. Its power of rendering relative tones and atmosphere is perhaps unequalled, whilst, although every one who has used it has sometimes wished that the undeveloped image were more visible, yet the pale, ghost-like print made by the light is very much better than nothing at all, and, indeed, may often be quite sufficient to guide us in our endeavours to control the action of light in a manner to be shortly described.