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<p>[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 3726777, member: 83845"]It is an engraving based on a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype" rel="nofollow">daguerreotype</a> photograph taken by <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Gustave_Joly_de_Lotbini%C3%A8re" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Gustave_Joly_de_Lotbini%C3%A8re" rel="nofollow">Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière</a> in October, 1839.</p><p><br /></p><p>It along with several other photographs of the Parthenon were made into engravings for a publication in 1841. Unfortunately the engravings survive in better shape than the original photos (if they survive at all?).</p><p><br /></p><p>However, many photos of Athens from the end of the 1830s and mostly the early 1840s are extant. Such as this one of the Acropolis from 1842.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]999236[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The first landscape photo was taken in 1826 (rural France).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]999209[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1838 this famous photo of Paris is the earliest to include people. The street was very busy but the gentleman having his shoe shined and the person doing the shining were still long enough to have their image captured.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]999210[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 3726777, member: 83845"]It is an engraving based on a [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype']daguerreotype[/URL] photograph taken by [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Gustave_Joly_de_Lotbini%C3%A8re']Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière[/URL] in October, 1839. It along with several other photographs of the Parthenon were made into engravings for a publication in 1841. Unfortunately the engravings survive in better shape than the original photos (if they survive at all?). However, many photos of Athens from the end of the 1830s and mostly the early 1840s are extant. Such as this one of the Acropolis from 1842. [ATTACH=full]999236[/ATTACH] The first landscape photo was taken in 1826 (rural France). [ATTACH=full]999209[/ATTACH] In 1838 this famous photo of Paris is the earliest to include people. The street was very busy but the gentleman having his shoe shined and the person doing the shining were still long enough to have their image captured. [ATTACH=full]999210[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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