Oliver Wendell Holmes used "mirror with a memory" to describe the daguerreotype, not the camera itself, in a 1859 essay in the Atlantic Monthly, "The Stereoscope and the Stereograph." You can find it at this URL: http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/stereo.html MG ----- Original Message ----- From: "W. McCarthy" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 1:23 AM Subject: camera as mirror w/ memory? > Does anyone know who first opined in print that the camera is a > "mirror with a memory"? Also, does there exist some convenient > history of the conceit? > > Gratefully, > Bill McCarthy > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite