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"In
the nice production
of
light
and
shade
which
is the perfection of
modelling, the
Daguerreotype
will be found to surpass
the Artist's best
efforts,
being capable of
representing independently,
action, expression, and
character to a great
extent; and in some
instances approaches very
nearly, if it does not
equal these higher
branches
[painting and
sculpture],
thus developing beauty in
grace of motion and in
repose, which is the first
object and the supreme law
of all Art."
--Albert
S. Southworth,
"Suggestions to
Ladies Who Sit for
Daguerreotypes,"
Lady's
Almanac,
1855
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THE STEREOSCOPE.
By
this simple apparatus, two
shadows become, to appearance,
so real and so beautiful as to
startle with surprise and
charm the beholder beyond all
previous
conception...
Messrs.
Southworth & Hawes
were so fortunate as to arrive
in their experiments to a
result which ... enabled them
to produce the first perfect
Stereoscopic pictures ever
made.
--From
a promotional article
by Albert S.
Southworth in The
Massachusetts
Register:
A State Record,
for the Year
1853, p.327.
Courtesy:
GaryW. Ewer
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