A crisp account of the origins of Italian photographic practice
and scientific development. The following topics are dealt with:
the reception of Daguerre's invention in Italy (some 150
articles and essays on that subject appeared 1839); the pioneer
Daguerreotypists and pioneer scientists of the photographic
process; the 'travelling' Daguerrotypists (mainly French
portraitists); the following generation of Calotypists who were
mainly concerned with landscape and architecture; and lastly the
emergence of a new industrial branch: the illustrated book with
pasted-in Calotypes and later on with prints from
glass-collodion plates. Illustrated. (German).