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 380
ular creations, composite Photo- unknown before the camera gave themgraphs. birth. An operator reduces his light so that a plate will require twenty secondsfor a complete impression. Twenty faces, either directlyor from good negatives, and all in tin- same position, aresuccessively imprinted upon… … COMPOSITE PORTRAIT OF EIGHT MEMBERS OF THENATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. TYPICAL FACES CREATED 319 ton, the inventor of the process.1 Hence a striking addi-tion to the portrait gallery of mankind—in typical faces ofschool-girls, philosophers, physicians, Saxon soldiers, mo-tormen, Apaches, or men of…
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