John Coyle wrote: >From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Aaron Reynolds wrote: >> >>>On Mar 28, 2006, at 4:54 PM, frank theriault wrote: >>> >>>> The only "rule" I recognize is that for real art, one must use film. >>>> The corollary to that is that digital is without soul, and is clearly >>>> the work of the Satan. >>> >>>You and your soul-less flexible base film -- bah, I spit on your >>>plastic resins! Real art is made on GLASS PLATES, you heathen. >> >> Glass plates, eh? Gettin' all fancy and modern on us, eh? >> Real photography is done on copper plate just like Louis Daguerre >> intended! >> >No it ain't - it's done on bitumen, just like Nicephore Niepce intended, or >on whatever Josiah Wedgwood was working with... > >This doesn't help, does it?
The very first photographic images, made by Humphrey Davey around 1726(!) were supposedly made on *leather*. The reason Humphrey Davey isn't known as the inventor of photography is probably that he never invented a fixing solution. Oops. :)
