The Project Gutenberg E-text of The History and Practice of the Art of Photograph
by Henry Hunt Snelling
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About this eBook
- Author
- Snelling, Henry Hunt, 1816-1897
- Title
- The History and Practice of the Art of Photography
- Credits
- Produced by Gregory Walker, for the Digital Daguerreian Archive Project.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TR: Technology: Photography
- Subject
- Daguerreotype
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 168
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/168
- Release Date
- October 1, 1994
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY;
- 2.OR THE PRODUCTION OF PICTURES THROUGH THE AGENCY OF LIGHT. — CONTAINING ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS NECESSARY FOR THE COMPLETE PRACTICE OF THE DAGUERREAN AND PHOTOGENIC ART, BOTH ON METALLIC PLATES AND ON PAPER. — By HENRY H. SNELLING. — ILLUSTRATED WITH WOOD CUTS. — New York: PUBLISHED BY G. P. PUTNAM, 155 Broadway, 1849. — TO EDWARD ANTHONY, ESQ., AN ESTEEMED FRIEND. Whose gentlemanly deportment, liberal feelings, and strict integrity have secured him a large circle of friends, this work is Respectfully Dedicated By the AUTHOR.
- 3.CONTENTS — PREFACE. — INTRODUCTION — PHOTOGRAPHY. — CHAP. I. — A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ART. — CHAP. II. — THE THEORY ON LIGHT.--THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINCIPLE — CHAP. III. — SYNOPSIS OF MR. HUNT'S TREATISE ON "THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOLAR RAYS ON COMPOUND BODIES, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR PHOTOGRAPHIC APPLICATION." — CHAP. IV. — A FEW HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS TO DAGUERREOTYPISTS. — CHAP. V. — DAGUERREOTYPE APPARATUS. — CHAP. VI. — THE DAGUERREOTYPE PROCESS. — CHAP. VII — PAPER DAGUERREOTYPES.--ETCHING DAGUERREOTYPES. — CHAP. VIII. — PHOTOGENIC DRAWING ON PAPER. — CHAP. IX. — CALOTYPE AND CHRYSOTYPE. — POSITIVE CALOTYPE. — THE CHRYSOTYPE. — CHAP. X. — CYANOTYPE--ENERGIATYPE--CHROMATYPE--ANTHOTYPE--AMPHITYPE AND "CRAYON DAGUERREOTYPE." — I. CYANOTYPE. — II. ENERGIATYPE. — III. CHROMATYPE. — IV. ANTHOTYPE. — V. AMPHITYPE. — VI. "CRAYON DAGUERREOTYPE." — CHAP. XI. — ON THE PROBABILITY OF PRODUCING COLORED PICTURES BY THE SOLAR RADIATIONS--PHOTOGRAPHIC DEVIATIONS--LUNAR PICTURES--DRUMMOND LIGHT. — PHOTOGRAPHIC DEVIATIONS. — LUNAR PICTURES--DRUMMOND LIGHT. — CHAP. XII. — ON COLORING DAGUERREOTYPES. — CHAP. XIII. — THE PHOTOGRAPHOMETER. — INDEX.
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