Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) - Hardcover

Taylor, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300124058 ISBN 13: 9780300124057

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2007

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Book by Taylor Roger

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Reseña del editor:

When photography appeared shortly before 1840, the metal-plate daguerreotype, invented in France, was first to achieve popularity. But the process simultaneously developed in England for capturing an image on a paper negative--from which many positives could be printed--provided the foundation on which photography would build for the next 150 years. This beautiful book presents more than 120 photographs printed from paper negatives, or calotypes, most never before published. The entire course of the paper negative's "golden age" is described, from its laborious invention by William Henry Fox Talbot to competition with French photographers and commercial practitioners. Aesthetically ambitious, these richly textured calotypes were created by photographers both eminent and virtually unknown. Also included is an invaluable biographical dictionary of more than 500 British calotypists.

Biografía del autor:

Roger Taylor is Professor of Photographic History at De Montfort University, Leicester, and former Senior Curator of Photographs and Head of Research Development at the National Media Museum, Bradford, England. Larry J. Schaaf is Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Professor, University of the Arts, London.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0300124058
• ISBN 13: 9780300124057
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 450