Description
| Product ID: | 9781851245963 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IT |
| Title: | Inventing Photography |
| Subtitle: | William Henry Fox Talbot in the Bodleian Library |
| Authors: | Author: Geoffrey Batchen |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, Individual photographers, Photographic equipment and techniques: general, Photography: subject-specific techniques and principles, Individual photographers, Photographic equipment & techniques, Special kinds of photography |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating William Henry Fox Talbot is celebrated today as one of the English inventors of photography. He made early photographic experiments in the 1830s, released the details of his photogenic drawing process in January 1839, and introduced important innovations to the medium in the 1840s and 1850s. Drawing on archive material in the Bodleian Library, including three albums given by Talbot to his sister, Horatia Feilding, as well as his illustrated books, Sun Pictures in Scotland and The Pencil of Nature, this volume shows how Talbot was continually inventing photography anew. A selection of eighty full-page plates provides a thematic survey of Talbot’s work, reproducing images that document his travels, his home and his family, as well as his intellectual interests, from science to literature to ancient languages. An illustrated introduction places Talbot’s work within the context of a modernising Britain, as well as within his own social and intellectual milieu, and explores how the competing daguerreotype process spurred Talbot to improve his own techniques and seek new functions and uses for paper-based photographs. This evocative selection is testament to Talbot’s constant quest for new photographic advances, offering a compelling window into the archives of an extraordinarily determined and creative man. |
| Imprint Name: | Bodleian Library |
| Publisher Name: | Bodleian Library |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-16 |
