From: Peter Marshall (petermarshall@cix.co.uk)
Date: 02/24/02-05:17:21 AM Z
Thanks for that Alan, I hadn't read that before.
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> >
> > Now, rereading the book by Roland Barth "La chambre claire", "Camera
> > Lucida"
> > in English, he mentions that the first photograph was by Niépce, and
> > that it
> > was a "dinner table". So the claim that the photograph, "Le point de
> > vue de
> > la fenêtre" was the first photograph ever, which is in Harry Ramson
> > Center
> > in Austin, seems in doubt. It seems then, that what is presume to be
> > the
> > first photograph, is in reality "the first preserved photograph from
> > nature*" (*According to Helmut Gernsheim-photo-historian) , not the
> > first
> > photograph.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Alejandro López de Haro
>
> I think you have to ask what the evidence was for the "dinner table" -
> I think it is possibly a mistaken recollection on the part of the
> author, who perhaps had a later picture by Talbot in mind.
>
> You would need to go back to the primary sources to investigate the
> claims properly. What you find on the Internet in particular - whether
> at the address you give or in my feature on Niepce - is almost entirely
> based on secondary sources.
>
> Peter Marshall
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