The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot

by Larry J. Schaaf

Book Overview

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) is best remembered as the scientist who invented photography. Others had tried recording the images projected by a lens, but Talbot was the first to grasp the physical basis for realizing this dream and to conceive of a practical means for fixing these ephemeral images permanently onto a sheet of paper. But Talbot's considerable technical achievements have often overshadowed his growth as an artist. Larry Schaaf...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691050007
• ISBN13: 9780691050003
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 5.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 10.8" x 13.0"