Photogenic Drawings (In: The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 1839 MayJune)
Washington: 1839. First edition. No binding. 93 p. In very good condition.
With the issue of 1839 June, with an article about Talbot and Daguerre.
In the May issue of the Democratic Review contains Samuel Morse’s report (pp. 517-520) on the images Daguerre had demonstrated to him in March, 1839 in exchange for Morse demonstrating the telegraph to Daguerre.In his essay, Morse, famous for the invention of the telegraph, first describes the Daguerreotype, and then adds "Mr. Fox Talbot, an English gentleman, perfectly unconscious of Mr. Daguerre's operations, made the same discovery, and, after some years experiments, had succeeded in bringing it to even greater perfection than the other -- when the announcement in Paris of the French invention astonished Europe." Morse was so taken by the demonstration that on his return to the United States he established the first photography studio in America where he trained Matthew Brady, among others.
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