PAUL (1848-1905) & PROSPERE HENRY (1849-1903)

'Photographie d'une portion du Cygne (13 Août 1885)'

细节

PAUL (1848-1905) & PROSPERE HENRY (1849-1903)
'Photographie d'une portion du Cygne (13 Août 1885)'
Albumen print, 10 x 8.1/8 in., mounted on grey card, titled, dated and with photographers' credit par M.Mrs. Henry and detail AR = 19h.55m._. P == 52 .15' Observatoire de Paris in ink on mount.

出版

Heilbrun, Néagu and Marbot, L'invention d'un regard (1839-1918), p. 235, pl. 106 (variant).

拍品专文

In 1884, the Henry brothers produced a perfect negative of the Milky Way at the Paris Observatory. The director of the Observatory, M. Mouchez, instigated the construction of special photographic equipment with which the brothers photographed the stars at sixteen times magnification, without distortion. It was the perfection of these prints which inspired Mouchez to produce the large format atlas of the stars, the Carte Photographique du Ciel.