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In the beginning and in the end there was only light — or so it seemed to Dante when he faced the ultimate vision of the Creator.1 At the end of his journey through Paradise, Dante's mortal senses and earth-bound language prove unequal to the task of describing the divine radiance, and he must resort to his mind's eye rather than his pen. Light and language have met repeatedly at similar cusps of the indescribable throughout history. Half a millennium after Dante, photographic pioneers would have commiserated with his dilemma, for they too had no language to describe the magic traces formed by light and conserved by chemistry.
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