First photographs : William Henry Fox Talbot and the birth of photography / texts by Michael Gray, Arthur Ollman, and Carol McCusker.

Main entry:

Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877.

Title & Author:

First photographs : William Henry Fox Talbot and the birth of photography / texts by Michael Gray, Arthur Ollman, and Carol McCusker.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York, NY : PowerHouse Books, 2002.

Description:

143 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Henry Talbot, the man who tamed light / Arthur Ollman -- Silver spoons and crinoline: domesticity & the "feminine" in the photographs of William Henry Fox Talbot / Carol McCusker -- Plates: The domestic world of Lacock Abbey -- Men of science & the Reading Establishment -- The pencil of nature -- Objects of admiration -- Travels through France & Britain -- William Henry Fox Talbot, 1800-1877 / Michael Gray -- Chronology -- Exhibition list.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Resources:
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Publisher description

ISBN:

1576871533
9781576871539

Subject:

Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877.
Photography, Artistic.
Photography Great Britain History 19th century.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
art photography.
Photography.
Fotografie.
Fotografen.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

photographs.
Photographs.
History.
Photographies.

Added entries:

Gray, Michael (Michael W.)
Ollman, Arthur.
McCusker, Carol.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232814
Call No.: TR140.T142 F5 2002
Status: Available

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