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 305
, a new morning dawned for thehuman soul. What had begun in sportive outlines, in mereidle ornament, took root for a thousand harvests of use andbeauty. Then arose the art of Representation, the puttingsign for substance, semblance for reality, the betokening athing by its swiftly created outline… … Fig. 80.Carving from the caves of the Dordogne Valley, France. Of imitative art in its first unsteady steps few traces havebeen unearthed : favoured by the durability of their material,some of the best portrayals known are among the oldest.In the caves of the Dordogne Valley, in southern…
Fire · Electricity · Color photography
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