the graphic age of electronic man. The step from the age of 
Typographic Man to the age of Graphic Man was taken with the 
invention of photography. Both daguerreotypes and 
photographs introduced light and chemistry into the making 
process. Natural objects delineated themselves by an exposure 
intensified by lens and fixed by chemicals. In the daguerreotype 
process there was the same stippling or pitting with minute 
dots that was echoed later in Seurat’s pointillisme , and is still 
continued in the newspaper mesh of dots that is called 
“wirephoto.” Within a year of Daguerre’s discovery, Samuel F. B. 
Morse was taking photographs of his wife and daughter in New 
York City. Dots for the eye (photograph) and dots for the ear 
(telegraph) thus met on top of a skyscraper.

     A further cross-fertilization occurred in Talbot’s invention 
of the photo, which he imagined as an extension of the camera