Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Pope Leo XIII: Ars photographica (a poem, 1899)


Photo from Big V Riot Squad (24 Oct 2014) from Scientific American, 14 Jan 1899.

Ars photographica,
Expressa Solis siculo
Nitens imago, quam bene
Frontis decus, vim luminum
Refers, et ovis gratiam!
O mira virtu ingeni!
Novumque monstrum! Imaginem
Natura Apelles amulus
Non pluchriorem pingeret.

Pope Leo XIII (1899)

From Paul Spehr: The Man Who Made Movies: W. K. L. Dickson (2008), p. 513–514.

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