Prim Atoms at Niagara If there is one place where the 19th century nuisance the ambulatory photographer becomes a positive insult , it is at Niagara Falls . Yet there are people who never seem to get tired of seeing themselves portrayed there - two such depicted by our artist posing with the raging rapids below the Falls as background . When we look upon the two prim , self important atoms and the three legged monster in the foreground , we feel that truly there is but a step between the sublime and the ridiculous and that here it has been taken . 1877