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Photogenic Drawing. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review Vol. V No. XVII May 1839
18393335Washington D.C.: Langtree & O'Sullivan 1839. First edition. Light foxing throughout. Otherwise in very good condition. First edition. 3 428–520. <p><br /> One of the earliest American reports on the photographic innovations by Daguerre and Talbot.<br /> <p><p><br /> This significant issue of Democratic Review includes one of the earliest American accounts of the pioneering discoveries in photography by Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot. The article "Photogenic Drawing" pp. 517–520 offers a detailed overview of Daguerre's daguerreotype process highlighting images such as a view of Paris from the Pont des Arts a crouching Venus statue and a spider magnified under a microscope. However except for the Venus photograph the other images mentioned are now lost. The section on Daguerre draws from Henri Gaucheraud's article published on January 6 1839 in La Gazette de France and Samuel F. B. Morse's report "The Daguerrotipe" from The New-York Observer April 20 1839. The article also covers Talbot's photogenic drawing referencing his "Account of the Processes employed in Photogenic Drawing" presented to The Royal Society in February 1839 and published in The Literary Gazette. <br /> <p><p><br /> This publication captures a critical moment in the early history of photography and its introduction to the American public.<br /> <p>. Langtree & O'Sullivan unknown
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