He was attempting to use a camera lucida to help him draw the village, lake and mountains. In 1833 William Henry Fox Talbot was sketching on the shores of Lake Como during his honeymoon. The first photographs a man contemplated (Niepce in front of the dinner table, for instance) must have seemed to him to resemble exactly certain paintings (still the camera obscura) he knew, however, that he was nose-to-nose with a mutant (a Martian can resemble a man) his consciousness posited the object encountered outside of any analogy, like the ectoplasm of “what-had-been”: neither image nor reality, a new being, really: a reality one can no longer touch. Introduction: Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida and the Sirens
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