FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS: WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT AND THE BIRTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

GRAY, Michael, Carol Mccusker; Arthur Ollman

ISBN 10: 1576871533 / ISBN 13: 9781576871539

Published by Powerhouse Books,, New York,, 2002

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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. Original publisher's maroon boards. ISBN: 1576871533 Pages: 144 Fine in fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS: WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT AND THE BIRTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
• Publisher: Powerhouse Books,, New York,
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1576871533
• ISBN 13: 9781576871539
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

First Photographs is an eyewitness to the origins of modern photography. This book - the only monograph on Talbot to be supported by the curator of the Fox Talbot Museum - includes many never-before-published images of landscapes, architectural studies, and portraiture from Talbot's personal archive and selections from his detailed research notebooks made during the 1830s and 1840s, currently housed at the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock Abbey in Chippenham, England.
In addition to his technological contributions, Talbot's own photographs represent exceptional and prescient artistic achievement. Arthur Ollman, director of the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, contributes an innovative analysis of both the aesthetic and social significance of Talbot's first photographic image, the "Oriel Window," through a remarkable evocation of Talbot's late-life reflection one sunny afternoon beneath his window in Lacock Abbey. Curator Carol McCusker considers how the women of the Lacock household influenced Talbot's aesthetic choices. First Photographs also includes a biography and timeline of Talbot's eventful life and revolutionary work by the preeminent Talbot scholar Michael Gray.

About the Author

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a philosopher, classicist, Egyptologist, mathematician, philologist, transcriber and translator of Syrian and Chaladean cuneiform texts, physicist, and photographer. His first experiments in photography made use of the photogenic process; he then went on to develop the process of creating negatives that could be used to make positive reproductions.