‎DAGUERRE – ARAGO (F.)‎
‎LE DAGUERREOTYPE. Séance du Lundi 19 Août 1839 ; in comptes rendus de l'académie des sciences, tome 9, pp. 250-267; EDITION ORIGINALE ---- DAGUERRE. DES PROCEDES PHOTOGENIQUES COMME MOYENS DE GRAVURE; LETTRE de Monsieur DAGUERRE à M. ARAGO ; Séance du 30 Septembre 1839 in comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, tome 9 pp. 423-429.EDITION ORIGINALE ---- "FIRST DISCLOSURE OF DAGUERRE'S PROCESS". (HORBLIT N° 21b)" ‎

‎P., Bacherlier, 1839, un volume in 4 relié en demi-basane noire, dos orné de filets dorés (reliure de l'époque), (coiffe émoussée, rousseurs), pp. 250-267, pp.423-429‎

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‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- "FIRST DISCLOSURE OF DAGUERRE'S PROCESS". (HORBLIT N° 21b)"... Details of this first practicable method of photography were not revealed by Arago until 19th August 1839, at a joint meeting of the Academies des Sciences and Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France. On this date, which counts as the official birthday of photography, a vast and curious crowd overflowed into the courtyard of the Institut and 'there was as much excitement as after a victorious battle'. Nowadays photography is so completely taken for granted that it is difficult to realize how magical the idea seemed to Daguerre's contemporaries that Nature could be made to produce a picture spontaneously...". (H. & A. Gernsheim "A concise history of photography", pp. 22/23) ---- Honeyman N° 3168**9113/L7/ARM4‎