No wonder, then, that such general interest is shown in the growth and progress of this science which has become so much a part of our daily lives. While the many, eager for new sensations, have exploited the camera. These investigators have gradually lifted the curtain through which Daguerre pierced his initial peephole, and in their scientific development of the resources of the camera have revealed unknown nuances of light through its extraordinary sensibility.
Pictorial photography is the most modern of arts in that it is most truly of our own time.
Fettered by no superannuated methods, keeping ever in touch with the newest developments in all fields of science, it is fitted to record and interpret the varied and multicolored life of today. Step by step, however, it has come to occupy its rightful position, and gradually its opponents have ceased their scoffing. The crude attempts at color-photography that appeared from time to time only served to discredit the possibility of anything worthy ever being achieved in this field by photography. That was only yesterday. For many years the solution of this problem has baffled the best scientific minds, who were encouraged to persevere, however, by the partial successes of such men as Lippmann of France, Joly of Ireland, Miethe of Germany, not to mention Ives and MacDonough of our own country.