The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot
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William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) is best remembered as the scientist who invented photography. Others had tried recording the images projected by a lens, but Talbot was the first to grasp the physical basis for realizing this dream and to conceive of a practical means for fixing these ephemeral images permanently onto a sheet of paper. But Talbot's considerable technical achievements have often overshadowed his growth as an artist. Larry Schaaf...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0691050007
ISBN13:9780691050003
Release Date:October 2000
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:5.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 10.8" x 13.0"
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