| Description |
viii, 308 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Studies in British art ; 23 |
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Studies in British art ; 23
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION: TALBOT AND HIS ARCHIVE -- Beyond Photography / Chitra Ramalingam -- Lacock Abbey and the Country House Archive / Katrina Dean -- MODELS FOR INVESTIGATION -- Talbot's First Lens: Botanical Vision as an Exact Science / Anne Secord -- "Merely a Speculation of the Mind"? / Fox Talbot -- June Barrow-Green:In the Shadow of Scott: Talbot and the Wizard of the North / Graham Smith -- INVENTION AND DISCOVERY -- Nature as Drawing Mistress / Herta Wolf -- Talbot's Art of Discovery / Vered Maimon -- "The Caxton of Photography": Talbot's Etchings of Light / Larry J. Schaaf -- INSTITUTIONS AND NETWORKS -- Bel and the Dragons: Deciphering Cuneiform after Decipherment / Eleanor Robson -- From Photographic Science to Scientific Photography: Talbot and Decipherment at the British Museum around 1850 / Mirjam Brusius -- "The Most Transitory of Things": Talbot and the Science of Instantaneous Vision / Chitra Ramalingam -- Commentary / Simon Schaffer |
| Summary |
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age - a time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial changes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877.
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Photographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Photography -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Brusius, Mirjam, editor
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Dean, Katrina, editor
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Ramalingam, Chitra, 1979- editor
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| LC no. |
2013019906 |
| ISBN |
0300179340 (hardback) |
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9780300179347 (hardback) |
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