A Hundred Years of Photography, 1839-1939 |
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... silhouettes for the purpose of studying the formation of the human head . " The silhouette is the emptiest and ... silhouettes ranged from 24 sous to 75 francs . Sil- houettes à l'Anglaise ( with dress and hair painted in ) cost 120 ...
... silhouettes for the purpose of studying the formation of the human head . " The silhouette is the emptiest and ... silhouettes ranged from 24 sous to 75 francs . Sil- houettes à l'Anglaise ( with dress and hair painted in ) cost 120 ...
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... silhouette . . . How would Lavater have felt about photography , if he had lived to see it ! Though silhouettes were extremely popular , they were , towards the end of the eighteenth century , re- placed by an invention of two Frenchmen ...
... silhouette . . . How would Lavater have felt about photography , if he had lived to see it ! Though silhouettes were extremely popular , they were , towards the end of the eighteenth century , re- placed by an invention of two Frenchmen ...
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... silhouettes , the action of the light not being long enough to render the half tones . " The first daguerreotypes , taken in sunlight in 1839 , required an exposure time of approximately one hour . To - day , in 1939 , exposure times of ...
... silhouettes , the action of the light not being long enough to render the half tones . " The first daguerreotypes , taken in sunlight in 1839 , required an exposure time of approximately one hour . To - day , in 1939 , exposure times of ...
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