Main entry:

Taylor, Roger, 1940- author.

Title & Author:

Impressed by light : British photographs from paper negatives, 1840-1860 / Roger Taylor ; biographical dictionary by Larry J. Schaaf in collaboration with Roger Taylor.

Publication:

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Washington : National Gallery of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
©2007

Description:

xiv, 438 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-426) and index.
Photography and an age of paradox -- The formative years : the calotype in the 1840s -- The great exhibition of 1851 -- Battling patents and gaining legitimacy -- The calotype finds its place -- Subjects fit for the camera -- British sensibilities 1855-1857 -- Echoes of the grand tour -- Under an Indian sky -- Commercialism advances, the calotype declines.

Summary:

"This richly illustrated book tells the first full history of the calotype, embedding it in the social context that crucially formed it: Britain's changing fortunes, intricate class structure, ever-growing industrialization, and new spirit under Queen Victoria. Of the 118 early photographs presented here in meticulously printed plates, many have never before been published or exhibited. And the histories of 500 calotypists, most previously unknown, are detailed in the volume's biographical dictionary, a valuable work of far-reaching scholarship the further demonstrates the major role played by the paper negative in mid-nineteenth-century Britain."--Jacket

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781588392251 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc))
1588392252 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc))
9780300124057 (Yale University Press (hc))
0300124058 (Yale University Press (hc))

Subject:

Calotype Great Britain History 19th century Exhibitions.
Calotype Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle Expositions.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Calotipo Gran Bretaña Exposiciones
Calotype.
Talbotypie
Fotograf
Fotografi historia Storbritannien 1840-talet 1850-talet 1860-talet.
Fotokonst historia Storbritannien 1840-talet 1850-talet 1860-talet.
Kalotypi historia Storbritannien 1840-talet 1850-talet 1860-talet.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Biographical dictionaries.
exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Schaaf, Larry J. (Larry John), 1947- author.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), publisher.
Yale University Press, publisher.
National Gallery of Art (U.S.), host insitution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260654
Call No.: BIB 191565
Status: Available