Abstract
IT is about forty years since Dr. Hermann Vogel wrote his volume entitled “The Chemistry of Light and Photography in their Application to Art, Science, and Industry” for the “International Scientific Series” so well known by their red covers. The copy before us is a “new and revised” edition issued in 1876, and about two-fifths of its contents are devoted to historical facts and processes, two-fifths to the applications of photography, including photo-mechanical methods, while the remaining fifth is devoted to the action of light, the correctness of photographs, perspective, &c., with a final chapter on “Photography as a subject to be taught in art and industrial schools” In this last chapter Dr. Vogel makes an earnest plea for the inclusion of photography in the courses of study of technical institutions, not “to train professional photographers… but so far as it is of importance for art and science.” He bases his plea, not only on the opinions of others, but also on his nine years' experience as professor of photography in the Royal Industrial Academy of Berlin.
The Advance of Photography: its History and Modern Applications.
By A. E. Garrett. Pp. xiii + 382. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Ltd., 1911.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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J., C. The Advance of Photography: its History and Modern Applications . Nature 89, 187–188 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089187a0
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