Oliver Wendell Holmes Photography Analysis

The author closes the article by discussing the thoughts of photography by Oliver Wendell Holmes and how she disagrees with him. According to Holmes, “photographs stand as the universal equivalent, capable of denoting the quantitative exchangeability of all sights”(Sekula, 23). However, the author seems to disagree with Homes, because Holmes according to her, doesn’t seem to understand the difference between quality and quantity. Holmes, also seems to focus more on the mathematical side of the camera, more than anything else. At the end, the author focuses on the Kodak camera and how its name, by definition, seems to reflect a more primitive state. She closes the article by asking if photography is only confined to primitive means.