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In Focus: William Henry Fox Talbot - Photographs From the J.Paul Getty Museum (Paperback)
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In Focus: William Henry Fox Talbot - Photographs From the J.Paul Getty Museum (Paperback)
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Loot Price R543
Discovery Miles 5 430
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William Henry Fox Talbot - a scientist, mathematician, author and
artist - is credited with being the inventor of photography as we
know it. In mid-1834 he began to experiment with light-sensitive
chemistry, and in January 1839 he announced his invention of the
photogenic drawing, two weeks after Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre's
daguerreotype process debuted in France. Talbot's improved process,
the calotype, was introduced in 1840. This invention, which
shortened exposure times and facilitated making multiple prints
from a single negative, became the basis for photography as it is
practised today The Getty Museum's collection of photographs
includes approximately 350 by Talbot, and approximately 50 are
reproduced here in colour with commentary on each image by Larry J.
Schaaf. Schaaf also provides an introduction to the volume and a
chronological overview of the artist's life This volume includes an
edited transcript of a colloquium on Talbot's career with
participants Schaaf, Michael Ware, Geoffrey Batchen, Nancy Keeler,
James Fee, Weston Naef and David Featherstone.
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