"Among the many novel ideas which the discovery of Photography
has suggested, is the following rather curious experiment or
speculation. I have never tried it, indeed, nor am I aware that
any one else has either tried or proposed it, yet I think it is one
which, if properly managed, must inevitably succeed.
When a ray of solar light is refracted by a prism and thrown
upon a screen, it forms there the very beautiful coloured band
known by the name of the solar spectrum.
Experimenters have found that if this spectrum is thrown upon
a sheet of sensitive paper, the violet end of it produces the
principal effect: and, what is truly remarkable, a similar effect is
produced by certain invisible rays which lie beyond the violet,
and beyond the limits of the spectrum, and whose existence is
only revealed to us by this action which they exert.
Now, I would propose to separate these invisible rays from the
rest, by suffering them to pass into an adjoining apartment through
an aperture in a wall or screen of partition. This apartment would
thus become filled (we must not call it illuminated) with invisible
rays, which might be scattered in all directions by a convex lens
placed behind the aperture. If there were a number of persons
in the room, no one would see the other: and yet nevertheless
if a camera were so placed as to point in the direction in which
any one were standing, it would take his portrait, and reveal his
actions.
For, to use a metaphor we have already employed, the eye of
the camera would see plainly where the human eye would find
nothing but darkness.
Alas! that this speculation is somewhat too refined to be
introduced with effect into a modern novel or romance; for what
a dénouement we should have, if we could suppose the secrets
of the darkened chamber to be revealed by the testimony of the
imprinted paper."
- William Henry Fox Talbot, A Scene in a Library, in The Pencil of Nature, 1844.
- William Henry Fox Talbot, A Scene in a Library, in The Pencil of Nature, 1844.
Text by Camille Clair about Lutz Bacher in relation to the study of acting: https://welcometochiaromonte.com/en/long-read/the-given
Seb and the natural wine bar's pet, so cute -100626
so beautiful
Would you say this artwork is rather like sugar or a pair of leather shoes?
so cute£%*¨_°#1234567890°¨*%£+/, Muyeong Kim, Camille Clair and I, pics by Arnaud Ferron -050626
Best organ house of all time
Wrapped organ in that church in the 16e -300526
Please take notes, Peter Doig at la Maison La Roche, Fondation Le Corbusier. Saturday with Arnaud ^^ -300526
"My Little Paris" open studio by Arnaud Ferron at Cité des Arts. Watching Notre Dame upside down.. live... crazy -270526
Louis Hay so hot on the Pont du Carrousel -260526
Made me want to get locked up inside the eel black box! Show by Muyeong Kim and Louis-Léopold Boilly at Abraham & Wolff Paris -260526
meds with Louis -240526
Musée de Préhistoire d'Ile-de-France with Ida Doutriaux, Sébastien Staels and Léon Nullans -240526
Marianna Escobar at the opening ^^ -230526
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