Title & Author:

William Henry Fox Talbot : beyond photography / edited by Mirjam Brusius, Katrina Dean, and Chitra Ramalingam.

Publication:

New Haven, CT : The Yale Center for British Art, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, ©2013.

Description:

viii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Studies in British art ; 23

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"? William Henry Fox Talbot and Mathematics / 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": Talbots 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:

Drawing on Talbot's fascinating letters, diaries, research notebooks, botanical specimens, and photographic prints, distinguished scholars from a range of disciplines, including historians of science, art, and photography, broaden our understanding of Talbot as a Victorian intellectual and a man of science.

ISBN:

9780300179347 (hardback)
0300179340 (hardback)

Subject:

Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877.
Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877 Critique et interprétation.
Talbot, William Henry Fox 1800-1877
Photographers Great Britain Biography.
Science Great Britain History 19th century.
Photography Great Britain History 19th century.
Photographes Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Sciences Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Photographie Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Photographers.
Photography.
Science.
Fotografie
Wissenschaftliche Fotografie
Fotografi historia.
Great Britain.
Storbritannien.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Brusius, Mirjam.
Dean, Katrina.
Ramalingam, Chitra, 1979-
Studies in British art ; 23.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284242
Call No.: TR140.T142 W55 2013
Status: Available