This project is a tribute to the amateur photographer Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819 - 1900) who was Astronomer Royal of Scotland and who, on his honeymoon trip in the summer of 1856, made experimental observations from the peaks of Tenerife, in the Islands Canary Islands, in order to verify the advantages provided by a high mountain astronomical observatory, a sky in a clean atmosphere. Piazzi Smyth wrote and published in London, in 1858, an extensive book on his trip to Tenerife, originally titled: "Teneriffe, an astronomer's experiment", which is illustrated with 20 stereoscopic photographs that he took on the island. These photographs were original albumen prints, pasted onto the pages of the book. I have tried to imagine some of those unalterable landscapes as long as the Teide allows it, treating the final copies like that technique with hand-colored albumen.
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This project is a tribute to the amateur photographer Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819 - 1900) who was Astronomer Royal of Scotland and who, on his honeymoon trip in the summer of 1856, made experimental observations from the peaks of Tenerife, in the Islands Canary Islands, in order to verify the advantages provided by a high mountain astronomical observatory, a sky in a clean atmosphere. Piazzi Smyth wrote and published in London, in 1858, an extensive book on his trip to Tenerife, originally titled: "Teneriffe, an astronomer's experiment", which is illustrated with 20 stereoscopic photographs that he took on the island. These photographs were original albumen prints, pasted onto the pages of the book. I have tried to imagine some of those unalterable landscapes as long as the Teide allows it, treating the final copies like that technique with hand-colored albumen.
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