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Richard
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Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs
Posted on November 28th, 2009 No commentsInteresting article from Guardian based on exhibition of Victoria photography at the British Library.
Rosemary Hill writes: “The early Victorians were the first generation to see themselves through the camera lens, but the idea of photography, the possibility of making an exact reproduction of visual experience, was one – like flight and the philosophers’ stone – that had haunted the imagination of inventors for centuries. The “camera obscura” or “dark room” that could project images on to a blank surface was known in antiquity, but a long hiatus followed. Then, at the end of the 18th century it was found that paper coated in silver nitrate would retain the image of an object placed on it for a tantalising moment before it faded.”
Captain Henry Duberly, paymaster of the 8th Hussars, with his wife Frances Isabella during the Crimean war, 1855. Photograph: Roger Fenton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Full article here – http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/nov/28/british-library-victorian-photography-exhibition
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