p.183
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Plates and films possess great latitude, it is true, but too short an exposure always has a tendency to cause a loss of atmosphere.

— Arthur Hammond

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Plates and films possess great latitude, it is true, but too short an exposure always has a tendency to cause a loss of atmosphere." in the context of "p.183" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Arthur Hammond

Arthur Hammond (1880 - 1962) was a pictorialist photographer, who has written books like Pictorial Composition in Photography.