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Secret Paris: Brassa'i. The Secret Paris of the 30's. New York: Pantheon
Books, 1976.
Brassai. Introductory essay by Lawrence Durrell. New York:
The Museum of Modern Art, 1968. BiW.At one moment an excited man comes out; he is surrounded, he is questioned, and he answers with a know-it-all air, that bitumen of Judea and lavender oil is the secret. Questions are multiplied, but as he knows nothing more, we are reduced to talking about bitumen of Judea and lavender oil. Soon the crowd surrounds a newcomer, more startled than the last. He tells us with no further comment that it is iodine and mercury. Finally the sitting is over, the secret is divulged.
While both Talbot's and Daguerre's processes were still secret, the astronomer and scientist Sir John F. W. Herschel, with characteristic intellectual curiosity and vigor, set about solving the problem independently. In his notebook, now preserved in the Science Museum, London, he wrote: "Jan. 29 [1839]. Experiments tried within the last few days since hearing of Daguerre's secret and that Fox Talbot has also got something of the same kind . |
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