A PHOTOGRAPHIC JUBILEE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1662, 14 September 1887, Page 2

A PHOTOGRAPHIC JUBILEE.

It is not generally known (observes the "Home Netra") that tho art of photography began early m the reign of Queen Victoria, and that the jubilee of tho art ought to be celebrated m 1889. So valuable was tho dhoovery considered la 1839 that the French Government presented Daguerre with £25,000 to induce him to make public the details of the ait, nhfoh waa then m a very infantile state. A person Bitting for a photograph then had to sit rhoiionless for nix or ten mlnateß, and, as the eyes could not then be "taken," | they had always to be kept shut. Great aB is the advance which the art has made since tben, Mr Mayall, of New Bond street, the eminent photographer, hag just added a fresh invention to the Art which Ib likely to be its crowning achievement. He has discovered a means of photographing fn colors, which may soon make finely-coloured photographs ooet only as mauy shillings as they have hitherto coat pounds when done by the hand process. And tho artistic merits of the new prccj2Bs areas wonderful as its rapidity and chtapncß3 The new oamera doss Ita woik m colors almost instantaneously. A photograph which Mr Mayall has taken by the new process, of Princess Christian, shows the perfect art with which it can reproduce one of the finest and mott expressive countenances. The olors by tl% dew prooess are iodeatructible, and are as oonat-iouous ia the folds and tints of tj lady 'a dress ac m the color of her eye Of the beauty of her f,&oe,