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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