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"La retícula de un tapiz fotográfico de las primeras imágenes"

English translation: An intricate tapestry of the first photographic images

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Spanish term or phrase:"La retícula de un tapiz fotográfico de las primeras imágenes"
English translation:An intricate tapestry of the first photographic images
Entered by: Jenni Lukac (X)

16:07 Apr 10, 2011
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts) / article on the history of photography
Spanish term or phrase: "La retícula de un tapiz fotográfico de las primeras imágenes"
It's the title of a section in an article about the history of photography (Spain). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
beba1340
Local time: 15:50
An intricate tapestry of the first photographic images
Explanation:
It would really be necessary to see the text to decide how to translate this correctly, but I offer this idea and give the sources of my ideas below.
The intricacy of a photographic tapestry of the first images is too clumsy, so to put the sentence into shape, I've assumed that the first images mentioned are the first photographic images (at least the first Spanish photographic images). I played with screen and even though that "reticula" might refer to the images being half-tones, but I ruled that out when you mentioned that the reticula is repeated as a metaphor to describe someone's biography later on. source for "intricate: re•tic•u•lar (r -t k y -l r). adj. 1. Resembling a net in form; netlike: reticular tissue. 2. Marked by complexity; intricate. ...
www.thefreedictionary.com/reticular . Hope that this at least sets you on the right trail!
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Jenni Lukac (X)
Local time: 15:50
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Thanks so much for your input Jenni, it was very helpful.
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An intricate tapestry of the first photographic images


Explanation:
It would really be necessary to see the text to decide how to translate this correctly, but I offer this idea and give the sources of my ideas below.
The intricacy of a photographic tapestry of the first images is too clumsy, so to put the sentence into shape, I've assumed that the first images mentioned are the first photographic images (at least the first Spanish photographic images). I played with screen and even though that "reticula" might refer to the images being half-tones, but I ruled that out when you mentioned that the reticula is repeated as a metaphor to describe someone's biography later on. source for "intricate: re•tic•u•lar (r -t k y -l r). adj. 1. Resembling a net in form; netlike: reticular tissue. 2. Marked by complexity; intricate. ...
www.thefreedictionary.com/reticular . Hope that this at least sets you on the right trail!


Jenni Lukac (X)
Local time: 15:50
Native speaker of: English
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Thanks so much for your input Jenni, it was very helpful.
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