Quoting H. de Lacretelle, La Lumière, 1852

The young artist has recorded, stone by stone, the cathedrals of Strasbourg and Rheims in over a hundred different prints. Thanks to him we have climbed all the steeples … what we never could have discovered through our own eyes, he has seen for us … one might think the saintly artists of the Middle Ages had foreseen the daguerreotype in placing on high their statues and stone carvings where birds alone circling the spires could marvel at their detail and perfection … . The entire cathedral is reconstructed, layer on layer, in wonderful effects of sunlight, shadows, and rain. M. Le Secq, too, has built his monument.

— H. de Lacretelle, La Lumière, 1852

5:43pm on October 4, 2024 from Turkey.


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