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Bede Morris, Arthur J. Birch: Images: illusion and reality (Paperback, 1986, Australian Academy of Science) 4 stars

This book has been written as an accompaniment to the Art-Science exhibition “Images — Illusion …

“Indeed it was Fox Talbot's personal ambition to record his own holiday travels through Europe that stimulated him to investigate ways of producing permanent pictorial records of his trips.” ― Bede Morris

Images: illusion and reality by , (Page 52)

So, one of the motivations behind the invention of photography was holiday photographs... So you could be continuing a 200 year old tradition...