Inventing Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot in the Bodleian Library.
Language: English
Published by Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2023
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192 pages with 107 colour illustrations. Hardback 26 x 24cms. ISBN: 9781851245963. A consideration of William Henry Fox Talbot’s contributions to the history of photography, facilitated by his archives at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. An essay explores Talbot's innovations including photographic drawing and engraving, the invention of the calotype and his publications. Followed by a catalogue of over 50 plates. Text in English.
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- Title
- Inventing Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot in the Bodleian Library.
- Author
- Batchen, Geoffrey
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Publication year
- 2023
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1851245960
- ISBN 13
- 9781851245963
Drawing on archive material in the Bodleian Library, including three albums given by Talbot to his sister, Horatia Feilding, as well as his illustrated books, Sun Pictures in Scotland and The Pencil of Nature, this volume shows how Talbot was continually inventing photography anew. A selection of eighty full-page plates provides a thematic survey of Talbot’s work, reproducing images that document his travels, his home and his family, as well as his intellectual interests, from science to literature to ancient languages.
An illustrated introduction places Talbot’s work within the context of a modernising Britain, as well as within his own social and intellectual milieu, and explores how the competing daguerreotype process spurred Talbot to improve his own techniques and seek new functions and uses for paper-based photographs.
This evocative selection is testament to Talbot’s constant quest for new photographic advances, offering a compelling window into the archives of an extraordinarily determined and creative man.
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Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford.
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