William Henry Fox Talbot Beyond Photography |
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| Editor:
| Dean, Katrina
Ramalingam, Chitra
Brusius, Mirjam |
| Author:
| Robson, Eleanor
Smith, Graham
Schaaf, Larry J.
Wolf, Herta
Maimon, Vered
Secord, Anne
Barrow-Green, June |
| Series title: | Studies in British Art Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-300-17934-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Yale Center for British Art
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age--a time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial changes. His manuscripts, now in the archive of the British Library, reveal the connections and contrasts between his photographic innovations and his investigations into optics, mathematics, botany, archaeology, and classical studies.
Drawing on Talbot's...
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William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age--a time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial changes. His manuscripts, now in the archive of the British Library, reveal the connections and contrasts between his photographic innovations and his investigations into optics, mathematics, botany, archaeology, and classical studies.
Drawing on Talbot's fascinating letters, diaries, research notebooks, botanical specimens, and photographic prints, distinguished scholars from a range of disciplines, including historians of science, art, and photography, broaden our understanding of Talbot as a Victorian intellectual and a man of science.
Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art