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pp. 25, followed by black and white plates, ” William Henry Fox Talbot was one of the founding fathers of photography. In 1835 he made perhaps the most significant discovery in the history of photography by producing the earliest negative – a one-inch square photography of a window in his WIltshire country house, Lacock Abbey. That same year he perfected what is now known as the negative/positive process and in 1840 he invented the calotype. He was, as Sir Cecil Beaton says in his forward, a genius. The prints chosen for this book represent the cream of his work. A large proportion have never published before, and many were made from the original negatives in the Lacock Abbey Collection. They prove, beyond all doubt, that Fox Talbot was an influential and important force in the gradual development of the science he had helped mould into the art it is today. Amongst those included are landscapes, still life photographs, portraits of his family, friends and estate workers (themselves a rich evocation of English rural life in the early Victorian age), photogenic drawings of lace and leaves, phtoographs taken at Lacock, London and abroad, as well as illustrations from The Pencil of Nature (itself the first book with photographic illustration), and experimental photographs that anticipate much in contemporary photography.”
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| ISBN | 900193778 | |
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| ISBN13 | 9780900193743 | |
| Number of pages | 25 | |
| Original Title | Fox Talbot: Photographer | |
| Published Date | 1979 | |
| Book Condition | Very Good | |
| Jacket Condition | No Dj | |
| Binding | Paperback | |
| Size | Oblong Smaller 4to | |
| Place of Publication | U.S.A. | |
| Edition | First Edition | |
| Category: | Photography | |
| Author: | Robert E. Lassam | |
| Publisher: | Kent State University Press |
pp. 25, followed by black and white plates, ” William Henry Fox Talbot was one of the founding fathers of photography. In 1835 he made perhaps the most significant discovery in the history of photography by producing the earliest negative – a one-inch square photography of a window in his WIltshire country house, Lacock Abbey. That same year he perfected what is now known as the negative/positive process and in 1840 he invented the calotype. He was, as Sir Cecil Beaton says in his forward, a genius. The prints chosen for this book represent the cream of his work. A large proportion have never published before, and many were made from the original negatives in the Lacock Abbey Collection. They prove, beyond all doubt, that Fox Talbot was an influential and important force in the gradual development of the science he had helped mould into the art it is today. Amongst those included are landscapes, still life photographs, portraits of his family, friends and estate workers (themselves a rich evocation of English rural life in the early Victorian age), photogenic drawings of lace and leaves, phtoographs taken at Lacock, London and abroad, as well as illustrations from The Pencil of Nature (itself the first book with photographic illustration), and experimental photographs that anticipate much in contemporary photography.”
| Weight | 1 kg |
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