This book is Richardson at her most descriptive, revealing how much she had been influenced by the medium of film.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977.
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Carol Watts
argues that many volumes of Pilgrimage are visually innovative: lantern slides and...
Timeline
1835: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre produced the...
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1835
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
produced the first recognizable photographic image printed on a treated metal plate, a precursor to the Daguerrotype.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
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Davis, Phil. Photography. 3rd ed., W. C. Brown, 1979.
4
1839: Louis Jacques Daguerre announced his discovery...
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1839
Louis Jacques Daguerre
announced his discovery of a photographic process; his daguerrotypes were silver images produced on copper plates.
Science in the Nineteenth Century. Editor Taton, René, Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol.
3
, Basic Books, 1965.
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19 August 1839: Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's daguerrotypes...
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19 August 1839
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
's daguerrotypes (photographic images on silvered copper plates) were shown at a joint meeting of the Académie des Sciences
and Académie des Beaux-Arts
in Paris.
Panati, Charles. Panati’s Browser’s Book of Beginnings. Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
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Derry, Thomas Kingston, and Trevor I. Williams. A Short History of Technology From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900. Clarendon, 1960.
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1840: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot invented...