Capturing the light : the birth of photography, a true story of genius and rivalry
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Edition
First U.S. Edition
Status
Nonfiction
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, -- 1787-1851
Inventors -- England -- Biography
Inventors -- France -- Biography
Photographers -- England -- Biography
Photographers -- France -- Biography
Photography -- England -- History -- 19th century
Photography -- France -- History -- 19th century
Talbot, William Henry Fox, -- 1800-1877
Inventors -- England -- Biography
Inventors -- France -- Biography
Photographers -- England -- Biography
Photographers -- France -- Biography
Photography -- England -- History -- 19th century
Photography -- France -- History -- 19th century
Talbot, William Henry Fox, -- 1800-1877
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Edition
First U.S. Edition
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages, 16 uunumbered pages of color plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [278]-295) and index
Description
"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 charts an extraordinary tale of genius, rivalry and human resourcefulness in the quest to produce the world's first photograph"--,Provided by publisher
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Watson, R., & Rappaport, H. (2013). Capturing the light: the birth of photography, a true story of genius and rivalry (First U.S. Edition). St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Watson, Roger and Helen Rappaport. 2013. Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry. St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Watson, Roger and Helen Rappaport. Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry St. Martin's Press, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Watson, Roger, and Helen Rappaport. Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry First U.S. Edition, St. Martin's Press, 2013.
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