19th century photography

https://121clicks.com/inspirations/rare-19th-century-photos-history/

I recently came across this article and wanted to share it. It was intriguing to me because, in principle, these are some of the most primitive photographs ever produced, and yet they still have a way of being so evocative, and captivating.

As a young guy, I used to obsess over fidelity. Everything had to be the highest resolution, and I wanted everything to be sampled to the highest standard the gear allowed. While there's nothing wrong with polish, these images really do show that the soul of an image has little to do with technical sophistication.

It leaves me wondering the profoundly philosophical but deeply useless question: what do we even mean when we say art is 'good'?