Re: Pronounciation

Grant Romer (romer@ee.rochester.edu)
Thu, 22 Feb 96 10:22:51 EST

>It was not Steve but I who wrote about the marble bust of Niepce. I did
>ask M. Farge, the director of the museum, if a photograph of Niepce
>existed. He said he had no knowledeg of one. Of course, as you know,
>Niepce died before they were able to get a practical process perfected.
>However, once he was dead, they could have left him out in the sun
>for 8 hours or so in order to make a pewter plate/bitumen image. ;-)

>Bob Schramm

Poor Niepce, dead for a hundred and sixty three years and still being
kicked around. No there are no photographs of Niepce, however there
is a lithographic portrait of him. Where it originated I do not know but
I have found a copy of it inside the front cover of Brian Coes book
Cameras, From Daguerreotypes to Instant Pictures, 1978. It is actually
one of four portraits that were used to make up the end sheets of the
book ( the other three are Daguerre, Fox Talbot and, of course, George
Eastman.)

Roger Watson
George Eastman House