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 324
new in theglass-makers art, and producing a very flat field withsharp definition. From among the combinations of lensesnow offered the artist and the amateur, they may chooseapparatus suited to portraiture, to interior views, or tolandscapes, confident of approaching truth in their resultsso… … Plate VIII. LOUIS JACQUES MANDfi DAGUERRE.Retouched from an injured original daguerreotype in the U. S. National Museum, Washington. ILLUSION OF RELIEF 277 The camera itself has undergone improvement not lessremarkable than the rectification of its lenses. In its firstestate it was so heavy and…
Fire · Electricity · Color photography
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