Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art

Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art.

At a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, held in Paris on the 19th day of August, 1839, Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre, in the presence of the flower of Parisian art, literature and science, gave a demonstration of his new discoverythe Daguerreotype. The success of the sance was complete, and the gathering of illustrious men was intoxicated with enthusiasm in favour of the Daguerreotype. It is, then, almost fifty years ago that the result of the work of the father of photography, Joseph Nicphore de Niepce, who had died six years previously, and of the partner of his latter daysDaguerrewas given to the French public, for though Arago declared that France had adopted the discovery and was proud to hand it as a present to the whole world, Daguerre, sharp business man that he was, took out a patent for his process in England on the 15th of July, 1839. It may be said, then, that for fifty years the influence of photography has been working amongst the people for better for worse; but a short half-century has photography had to develop, and we naturally feel a little curious to know what it has been doing all that time. Has the art been lying idle and stagnating, or has it been developing and extending its roots into all the industrial, scientific and artistic fields of enterprise? Let us see what this cool young goddess, born of art and science, who generally comes to stay and finally to oust the old goddesses from their temples, has been doing these fifty years. 2In the fields of science she has been most busy. She has been giving us photographs of the moon, the stars, and even of the nebul. She has recorded eclipses and a transit of Venus for us. She has drawn too the Suns corona, and registered those great volcanic explosions which playfully take place there periodically. She has shown us that there are stars which no telescope can find, and she has in another form registered for us the composition of the sun and of many of the stars; and now she is busy mapping out the heavens. Like an all-powerful goddess, she plays with the planets and records on our plates, with delicate taps, the stars. She runs through the vast space of the kosmos doing our biddings with a precision and delicacy never equalledin short she is fast becoming the right hand of the astronomer. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 56833
Author: Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry)
Release Date: Mar 24, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English