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Paperback. Condition: Fair. An intimate look at the journeys of two men--a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist--as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photography During the 1830s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific enquiry fostered by the industrial revolution, two quite different men--one in France, one in England--developed their own dramatically different photographic processes in total ignorance of each other's work. These two lone geniuses--Henry Fox Talbot in the seclusion of his English country estate at Lacock Abbey and Louis Daguerre in the heart of post-revolutionary Paris--through diligence, disappointment and sheer hard work overcame extraordinary odds to achieve the one thing man had for centuries been trying to do--to solve the ancient puzzle of how to capture the light and in so doing make nature 'paint its own portrait'. With the creation of their two radically different processes--the Daguerreotype and the Talbotype--these two giants of early photography changed the world and how we see it. Drawing on a wide range of original, contemporary sources and featuring plates in colour, sepia and black and white, many of them rare or previously unseen, Capturing the Light by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport charts an extraordinary tale of genius, rivalry and human resourcefulness in the quest to produce the world's first photograph.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. An intimate look at the journeys of two men--a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist--as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photography During the 1830s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific enquiry fostered by the industrial revolution, two quite different men--one in France, one in England--developed their own dramatically different photographic processes in total ignorance of each other's work. These two lone geniuses--Henry Fox Talbot in the seclusion of his English country estate at Lacock Abbey and Louis Daguerre in the heart of post-revolutionary Paris--through diligence, disappointment and sheer hard work overcame extraordinary odds to achieve the one thing man had for centuries been trying to do--to solve the ancient puzzle of how to capture the light and in so doing make nature 'paint its own portrait'. With the creation of their two radically different processes--the Daguerreotype and the Talbotype--these two giants of early photography changed the world and how we see it. Drawing on a wide range of original, contemporary sources and featuring plates in colour, sepia and black and white, many of them rare or previously unseen, Capturing the Light by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport charts an extraordinary tale of genius, rivalry and human resourcefulness in the quest to produce the world's first photograph.…

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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good to Very Good-. First Edition. 1st printing, Sept. 1980. Cover art by is uncredited [Paul Alexander]. Paperback original. Includes "The Last Days of (Parallel?) Earth" by Robert Sheckley; "The Day After the End of the World" by Harry Harrison; "A Very Good Year, Fire And/Or Ice, Exeunt Omnes" by Roger Zelazny; "Sungrab" by William F. Nolan; "Where Are You Now, Eric Scorbic?" by K. Copeland Shea; "Bud" by Ian Watson; "The Making of Revelation" by Philip Jose Farmer; "Rebecca Rubinstein's Seventeeth Birthday" by Simon Gandolfi; "The Revelation" by Thomas M. Disch; "Nirvana Is a Nowhere Place" by Joel Schulman; "Heir" by J. A. Lawrence; "The Kingdom of O'Ryan" by Bob Shaw; "Just Another End of the World" by Maxim Jakubowski. Scarred at upper rear spine corner; edge and corner bumps and wear; bumps and dings; light tanning. Book. …

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Tells the story of two lone geniuses and the extraordinary race to invent photography. This book traces the lives of two very different men in the 1830s, both racing to be the first to solve one of the world's oldest problems: how to capture an image and keep it for ever.