From: Alejandro Lopez de Haro (alhr@wanadoo.fr)
Date: 02/15/02-04:44:08 AM Z
Hi Peter:
As far as I know, what is being auction at Christies-Paris, is the "first
ever photographic document in the world", which was printed as a "gravure"
from a "copper plaque", since Niépce at that date-1825- didn't know how to
fix a lasted image. He had succeeded in printing his photographic image
from a copper plate where he then made a gravure.
Regards,
Alejandro López de Haro
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Marshall" <petermarshall@cix.co.uk>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: Calotypes / Southeby's
> > The estimate at Southeby's for the Niepce, which also includes 35
> > letters totalling 150 pages, is E750,000. But I think it will go much
> > higher. BTW, does anyone know of an account, besides Kingslake, of the
> > lenses used by the French calotypists?
> >
> >
> Isn't the Niepce on sale there actually the world's first photocopy and
> the first existing photograph - also by Niepce - still on show in Texas?
>
> Gernsheim decided that this item was priceless, and was given it without
> charge, handing it on without valuation when he sold his collection.
>
> (Assuming of course we don't take the claims about the Turin shroud being
> a medieval photograph seriously. I think it is a nice story.)
>
> Peter Marshall
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