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Taking Back Sunday - This Photograph Is Proof: The quality of authenticity implicit in a photograph may give it special value as evidence, or proof. Such a photograph can be called "documentary" by dictionary definition: "an original and official paper relied upon as basis, proof, or support of anything else;—in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information."1
Thus any photograph can be considered a document if it is found to contain useful information about the specific subject under study. The word was not infrequently used in the nineteenth century in a photographic context:
Nadar was a ceaseless, energetic worker. While still taking back sunday - this photograph is proof portraits he continued to illustrate books and to write novels. He constantly experimented. He was among the first to photograph by electric light, and produced a documentation of underground Paris, its catacombs and its sewers. He was the first to photograph from a balloon, in 1858.
QUADRAGESIMA, kwod-ra-jes'i-ma, the period of the 40 days' fast preceding Easter: the season has a like name in Greek, Tesserakoste, fortieth. The first Sunday of Lent is sometimes called Quadragesima, but in the Roman calendar it is Dominica prima Quadragesimae, first Sunday of Lent and the Sundays following are denominated, respectively, the second, third and fourth of Quadragesima, Passion Sunday (Dominica Pas-sionis), and Palm Sunday (Dominica Palmarum). In the Book of Common Prayer these six Sundays are called the first, second, third, fourth and fifth of Lent and "Sunday next before Easter" ; but this Sunday is also styled in England and the United States "Passion Sunday," and its week "Passion Week" ; its familiar name among Catholics is "Holy Week." |
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