David Octavius Hill
[Photographer, b. 1802, Perth, Scotland, d. 1870, Newington, Scotland.]
The rough surface and unequal texture throughout of the paper is the main cause of the Calotype failing in details before the process of Daguerreotypy—and this is the very life of it. They look like the imperfect work of man—and not the much diminished perfect work of God.
(1848) 
