William Henry Fox Talbot and the Promise of Photography Talbot William Henry FoxPevná vazba
With rarely seen images, this handsome, affordable volume shows Talbot's wide-ranging interestsThis beautiful publication serves as a primer on the work of William Henry Fox Talbot, a true…
Specifikacia William Henry Fox Talbot and the Promise of Photography Talbot William Henry FoxPevná vazba
With rarely seen images, this handsome, affordable volume shows Talbot's wide-ranging interestsThis beautiful publication serves as a primer on the work of William Henry Fox Talbot, a true interdisciplinary innovator who drew on his knowledge of art, botany, chemistry and optics to become one of the inventors of photography in 1839. Talbot's "photogenic drawings" (photograms), calotypes and salted paper prints are some of the first-ever examples of images captured on paper.Accompanying an exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh opening in November 2017, this book brings together more than 30 photographs by Talbot that demonstrate his wide-ranging interests, including nature, still-life, portraiture, architecture and landscape. Some of these images are previously unpublished. Through thematic groupings elucidated by noted Talbot scholar Larry
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