L'ouvrage retrace l'histoire illustrée des débuts de la photographie à travers les expériences mises au point par Talbot, le fondateur de la photographie moderne et figure intellectuelle majeure de son temps. Les photographies rassemblées dans l'ouvrage couvrent l'ensemble de sa carrière.
The Pencil of Nature
"This book brings together for the first time high-quality reproductions representing the full sweep of Talbot's work.
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition William Henry Fox Talbot and the Promise of Photography at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, November 18, 2017?February 11, 2018."
Schaaf, an independent photohistorian and research professor at the University of Glasgow and the director of the Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot Project, discusses approximately fifty of Talbot's images in the collection of the ...
This book - the only monograph on Talbot to be supported by the curator of the Fox Talbot Museum - includes many never-before-published images of landscapes, architectural studies, and portraiture from Talbot's personal archive and ...
Features a biographical sketch of the English physicist William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), presented by the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland. Notes...
Published to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Britain's celebrated inventor of photography, Specimens and Marvels illuminates the mid-nineteenth-century cultural environment in which Talbot's vision for photography emerged--a vision...
Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre may be the official father of photography, but William Henry Fox Talbot, Cambridge graduate, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and amateur archeologist, is the true father of modern photography. In...
Drawing on archival material in the Bodleian Library, including three albums given by Talbot to his sister, Horatia Feilding, and his illustrated books, Sun Pictures in Scotland and The Pencil of Nature, this volume shows how Talbot was ...
Focusing on early nineteenth-century England'and on the works and texts of the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot?Singular Images, Failed Copies historicizes the conceptualization of photography in that era as part of a ...