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Comment on Wikipedia Text: photograph that started it all
. . . in referece to the wikipedia text,
photograph that started it all
it is important to note that the pictures of the shroud we are accustomed to seeing are negatives; that is, lighter and darker tones are reversed. For instance, the tip of the nose on the shroud is darker than most other parts of the image. But when reversed, the tip of the nose appears white.
The questions that occurred in 1898 are questions that remain unanswered today: 1)If the shroud images were the product of an artist or faker of relics, how was it possible, before any knowledge of grayscale negatives (from the invention of negative photography by Henry Fox in 1834) to paint or otherwise produce a negative? In fact, unless copying a negative, it is almost impossible to paint a negative from a positive object or picture. 2)Why would he do so?
Recent studies of the variegated bleaching patterns of the cloth all but rule out a by-hand method of producing a negative image.
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