Instead I thought about the word profile and what a weird double meaning it had. We say we’re looking at a person’s profile online, or say a newspaper is writing a profile on someone, and we assume it’s the whole them we’re seeing. But when a photographer takes a picture of a profile, you’re only seeing half the face.
— David Levithan (Every You, Every Me)
The earnest and untiring search for the beautiful… lists photography above the levels of a mere pastime; it makes it an inspiration; an interpreter of the thoughts of God.
— Unsigned, “The Present Aspect of Amateur Photography,” American Amateur Photographer, 1, no.1 (July 1889): 5.
