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"They weren’t trying to change the world. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, Louis
Daguerre, Henry Fox Talbot, and John Herschel — the handful of men who invented
photography — only wanted to capture images from light reflected on a solid
surface.
But within a few years, their experimenting turned into a social force that was
embraced by the public. Other technology influences — the telephone, the
automobile, the internet — took decades before they were in use everywhere. But
photography enjoyed nearly instant acceptance. Louise Daguerre introduced his
daguerreotype process of photography in 1839.
Within a decade, almost every city in America had a daguerreotype studio, and
travelling photographers in their darkroom-wagons were photographing settlers
and Native Americans on the frontier. And, just a few years later, photography
was shaping the destiny of the American people. Here are five of photography’s
unintended consequences."
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
