History And Description: In that same section, Swift savagely lampoons the scientists, describing them as having excellent telescopes through which they have discovered two moons of Mars. The description he gives happens to tally rather closely with that of the actual moons discovered a century and a half later. It is the most startling coincidence in the history and Description of science fiction.
The last stage of this series was a complete reduction of all grace, a grotesque clenching of human form into no more than a lumpy mass. But this is only a description of their formal features. The enormous wealth of emotion that is behind these intimate protraits cannot be grasped with a verbal description, but is only accessible to an unprejudiced onlooker via his own emotions.
"For everything for which Art, so-called, has hitherto been the means but not the end, photography is the allotted agent. . . . She is the sworn witness of everything presented to her view. What are her unerring records in the service of mechanics, engineering, geology, and natural history and Description, but facts of the most sterling and stubborn kind? . . . Facts which are neither the province of art nor of description, but that of a new form of communication between man and man-neither letter, message, nor picture-which now happily fills up the space between them?"
|
|
Photography
