This theme includes example sections and will be revised and added to as we proceed. Suggestions for additions, improvements and the correction of factual errors are always appreciated.
We stop with astonishment before M. Le Gray’s "Sea and Sky", the most successful seizure of water and cloud yet attempted. The effect is the simplest conceivable. There is a plain, unbroken prairie of open sea, lined and rippled with myriad smiling trails of minute undulations, dark and sombrous and profoundly calm, over the dead below – smooth as a tombstone.
Journal of the Photographic Society (21 February 1857)
Falconer, John, 1993, Sail & Steam: A Century of Maritime Enterprise: 1840-1935: Photographs from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, (London: Viking) isbn-10: 067084750X [Δ]
Szarkowski, John & Benson, Richard, 1997, A Mariner's Album: 100 Photographs and Their Stories, (Yale University Press) isbn-10: 0300073992 isbn-13: 978-0300073997 [Δ]
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