American Handbook of the Daguerreotype [Hardcover]

S. D. Humphrey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2003

The decomposition of a beam of light can be noticed by exposing it to a prism. If, in a dark room, a beam of light be admitted through a small hole in a shutter, it will form a white round spot upon the place where it falls. If a triangular prism of glass be placed on the inside of the dark room, so that the beam of light falls upon it, it no longer has the same direction, nor does it form a round spot, but an oblong painted image of seven colors--red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. This is called the solar spectrum.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Review

As early as 1858, the photography manual The American Handbook of the Daguerreotype provided instructions for using masking and double exposures to make one person appear twice in a single photograph. Within a few years, studios in the U.S. and other nations were offering multiple exposure portraits --human clones, created with a camera. And that's only one example of the often ingenious, sometimes insidious uses of early manipulated photography-- from humor to political propaganda to communicating with the dead.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 120 pages
• Publisher: IndyPublish.com (May 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140435798X
• ISBN-13: 978-1404357983
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