Camera Clues: A Handbook for Photographic Investigation

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NOTES Chapter 1. Introduction I. Brian Coe, The Birth ofPhotography: The Story ofthe Formative Years, 1800-1900 (London: Spring Books, 1989), 6. 2. For a fuller discussion see Robert A. Baker and Joe Nickell, Missing Pieces (Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1992), 101-5. See also Joe Nickell, "Literary Investigation : Texts, Sources, and 'Factual' Substructs of Literature and Interpretation," Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky, 1987, I-II. 3. Baker and Nickell, Missing Pieces, 103. 4. Ibid., 103-4. See also Elie Shneour, "Occam's Razor," Skeptical Inquirer 10 (1986): 310-13. 5. Joe Nickell, Pen, Ink, and Evidence: A Study rifWriting and Writing Materialsfor the Penman, Collector, and Document Detective (Lexington: Univ. Press ofKentucky, 1990). Chapter 2. The History of Photography I. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1960, 21: 113, s.v. "Spain." 2. Ibid., 13:669, s.v. "Landscape Painting." 3. Ibid., 18:266, S.v. "Portrait Painting." 4. Ibid., 20:654, S.Y. "Silhouette." See also Coe, Birth ofPhotography, 8. 5. Coe, Birth rifPhotography, 8-9. 6. Nickell, Pen, Ink and Evidence, 166-68. 7. Coe, Birth ofPhotography, 8-9. 8. Leonardo da Vinci, quoted in translation in ibid., 9. 9. Ibid.; Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1960, 4:658-59, S.Y. "Camera Lucida and Camera Obscura." 10. Humphry Davy, "An Account of a Method of Copying Paintings Upon Glass etc., Invented by T. Wedgwood Esq., with Observations by H. Davy," Journals ofthe Royal Institution 9 Uune 22, 1802), quoted by Peter Turner, History ofPhotography (Greenwich, Conn.: Brompton Books, 1987), 14; and Coe, Birth ofPhotography, 10, 13. 11. Coe, Birth rifPhotography, 13-15. (This early photograph is preserved in the Gernsheim Collection at the University of Texas.) NOTES TO PAGES 6-12 207 12. Ibid., 22, 24. 13. James M. Reilly, Care and Identification of 19th-Century Photographic Prints (Rochester, N.Y.: Eastman Kodak Co., 1986), I. 14. John Ward, "The Beginnings ofPhotography," in Colin Ford, ed., The Story ofPopular Photography (North Pomfret, Vt.: Trafalgar Square Publishing, 1989), 13. 15. Bernard Marbot, "The New Image Takes Its First Steps," inJean-Claude Lemagny and Andre Rouille, eds., A History ofPhotography (Cambridge: Cambridge Uniy. Press, 1987), 20; Turner, History ofPhotography, 16. 16. Marbot, "New Image," 20-21. 17. Ency. Brit., 1960, 15:824, S.Y. "Morse, Samuel Finley Breese." 18. Coe, Birth ofPhotography, 18-19. 19. Marbot, "New Image," 23. 20. Quoted in Ward, "Beginnings," 20. 21. Ibid., 19-22; Marbot, "New Image," 23-24. 22. Quoted in Coe, Birth of Photography, 17. 23. Conservation of Photographs (Rochester, N.Y.: Eastman Kodak, 1985), 26; Reilly, Care and Identification, 50. 24. Turner, History ofPhotography, 16. 25. Quoted in ibid., 19. 26. Quoted in ibid., 19-20. 27. Marbot, "New Image," 25. 28. Ward, "Beginnings," 21-22. See also Turner, History ofPhotography, 23. 29. Reilly, Care and Identification, 50; see also Ross J. Kelbaugh, Introduction to Civil War Photography (Gettysburg, Pa.: Thomas Publications, 1991), 7. 30. Coe, Birth ofPhotography, 30. 31. American Heritage Desk Dictionary (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981), S.Y. "collodion." 32. Kelbaugh, Introduction to Civil War Photography, 7; Ford, Story ofPopular Photography , 179. 33. Coe, Birth ofPhotography, 31. 34. Ibid. 35. Ibid., 32. 36. From an ad reproduced in ibid., 31. 37. Kelbaugh, Introduction to Civil War Photography, 15. 38. Ibid. 39. As noted in ibid., 15, 48. 40. David Allison, "Photography and the Mass Market," in Ford, Story ofPopular Photography, 48. 41. Kelbaugh, Introduction to Civil War Photography, 15. 42. Ibid., 27. 43. Coe, Birth ofPhotography, 32. See also Richard Blodgett, Photographs: A Collector 's Guide (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 34; Kelbaugh, Introduction to Civil War Photography, 27. 44. Kelbaugh, Introduction to Civil War Photography, 27. 45. Coe, Birth ofPhotography, 32; Allison, "Mass Market," 48. 46. Reilly, Care and Identification, 51. 47. Blodgett, Photographs, 34, 35; Conservation ofPhotographs, 31. See also Josette Sivignon, "Chronology," in Lemagny and Rouille, History ofPhotography, 269. 208 NOTES TO PAGES 12-24 48. Allison, "Mass Market," 48. 49. Coe, Birth ofPhotography, 32-34. 50. COTlServation of Photographs, 32. 51. Kelbaugh, Introduction to Civil War Photography, 27; Coe, Birth ofPhotography, 36. 52. Blodgett, Photographs, 35. 53. COTlServation of Photographs, 32. 54. Kelbaugh, Introduction to Civil War Photography, 27. 55. Ibid.; Blodgett, Photographs, 34-35. 56. Quoted in Allison, "Mass Market," 48. 57. Coe, Birth of Photography, 35, 36. 58. Quoted in Coe, Birth ofPhotography. 59. Blodgett, Photographs, 43; Coe, Birth ofPhotography, 26-28. 60. Coe, Birth ofPhotography, 28. 61. Ibid. 62. Ibid., 29; Reilly, Care and Identification, 2...