Post-telegraphic Pictures: Asher B. Durand and the Nonconducting Image

摘要

The cosmic impact of the electromagnetic telegraph became evident as soon as Samuel F.B. Morse first successfully demonstrated his apparatus in 1844. Both popular and literary outlets began musing on "the epoch of annihilated space," and the New York Herald was typical in announcing that the telegraph had "originated in the mind an entirely new class of ideas, a new species of consciousness."