… the constant motion in the leaves rendering his landscapes confused
and unmeaning… [T]he same objection necessarily applies to all moving
objects, which can never be properly delineated without the aid of
memory'. Only after it had fallen to the ground was a leaf available for
impression, when it rejoined the world of inert things.
Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion p44 commenting on Daguerre's experiments.
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