JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
This is a continuation of sort of this morning's post, "Massive 500-Daguerreotype Mosaic", though this one concentrates on the sumptuous ruination and decay that has occurred within and to some of these photographic images. I've looked closely at only five of these images, and within each of these five images there are five more. And, if you manipulated the largest downloadable file of these (which range up to about 150 megs), there are five more within the five within the five. And all that before you start to imagine the artistic fantasies int he non-representational forms, and that before adding color. So five is all that will be here, for the present.
For example:
Are all derived from this full image, which is beautiful in itself:
![[Benjamin B. French, half-length portrait, facing left]](http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c10000/3c10000/3c10000/3c10030r.jpg)
A couple of other examples, with their full images following at end:
![[Emma Gillingham Bostwick, half-length portrait of a woman, three-quarters to left, facing three-quarters to right]](http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c09000/3c09900/3c09909r.jpg)
![[Joshua R. Giddings, half-length poirtrait, facing slightly right]](http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c10000/3c10000/3c10100/3c10107r.jpg)
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