"Louisiana painting of the nineteenth century may be said to be story-telling documentary. . . . in the eighteen thirties we have a precise recording of hard core reality, flavored with an exuberant romanticism and seasoned with the delicious shudder of the Gothic novel. "Then came the daguerreotype. On January 15, 1839, S. F. B. Morse saw Daguerre's exhibit in Paris and wrote modestly that 'the two great wonders exhibited in Paris are the Daguerreotype and Morse's Electro Magnetic Telegraph.' ." . . From this time on, the influence of the photograph on painting becomes a factor,...
"Louisiana painting of the nineteenth century may be said to be story-telling documentary. . . . in the eighteen thirties we have a precise recordi...
