The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.