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Excerpt from The Camera and the Pencil, or the Heliographic Art, Its Theory and Practice in All Its Various Branches, E.g. Daguerreotypy, Photography, &C, : Together With Its History in the United States and in EuropeThe reader might scarce credit me, were I to tell him of how much vigilant Observation and laborious thought these few pages were the fruit. Day after day, and week after week, through several succes sive years, I kept careful wat...
This text is both a practical and theoretical treatise concerning topics related to Heliographic art such as Daguerreotypy, Photography, etc. The Camera And The Pencil is a classic text containing comprehensive information still fundamental to the field - a must-have for students and enthusiasts of Heliographic art. Born in 1808, Marcus Aurelius Root was a famous photographer and pioneer of daguerreotyping. Originally published in 1864, this d...