Charles Nègre
[Photographer, b. 1820, Grasse, France, d. 1880, Cannes, France.]

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

Jean Baudrillard
[Writer and theorist, b. 1929, Reims, France, d. 2007, Paris.]

Digital production erases the image as analogon; it erases the real as something capable of being ‘imagined’.