From Reality to Fiction

The first mention of photography in a novel comes in Nathaniel Hawthorn’s “The House of the Seven Gables” (1851), although there was a prescient mention of a nonexistent process wherein an image is formed on canvas in “Giphantie” (1760) by Charles-Francois Tiphaigne de la Roche. Following on from th...

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