Flame, electricity and the camera; man's progress from the first kindling of fire to the wireless telegraph and the photography of color (1900)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday & McClure co. · leaf 311
ores many leagues removed from the artists, home orgrave. Art had begun its victory over time and space.Knowledge could now be accumulated as never before: inmuch a man might now begin where his father had left off.Of the excellence to which American aboriginal art rosein its latest pictures and… … Fig. 8i. (From H. R. Schoolcraft, History, ConditioHy and Prospects of the IndianTribes of the United States, Philadelphia, 1854, Vol. IV, p. 253, plate 32.) Taken irom the shoulder-blade of a bufialo found on the plains in the ComancheCountry of Texas. Symbolises the strife for the buffalo…
Fire · Electricity · Color photography
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