Brahms biography movie actress

Brahms came into the world at the same time as the science of photography was being perfected. He was one of the first classical composers to be captured by “drawing with light”.

The Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) invented heliography, which he used to make the earliest known permanent photograph, “View from the Window at Le Gras” (c.

Brahms biography movie actress

1826). The process used Bitumen of Judea (or Syrian asphalt) as a coating on glass. Exposed to light it hardened and, when the plate was washed with oil of lavender, only the image remained (together, one assumes, with a pleasant odour).

Louis Daguerre (1789-1851), who had worked with Niépce, came up with the first practical photographic process in 1837: the daguerrotype.

A thin silver-plated copper sheet was sensitized with iodine vapour and exposed to light in a camera for several minutes. A latent negative image was then subjected to a further process to create a positive image.

At the Royal Society in London in 1841 the Englishman Willia