William Henry Fox Talbot est aujourd'hui célébré comme l'inventeur anglais de la photographie. Il a réalisé les premières expériences photographiques dans les années 1830, a dévoilé les détails de son procédé de dessin photogénique en janvier 1839 et a introduit d'importantes innovations dans ce domaine dans les années 1840 et 1850. S'appuyant sur les archives de la Bodleian Library, dont trois albums offerts par Talbot à sa sœur, Horatia Feilding, ainsi que ses livres illustrés, Sun Pictures in Scotland et The Pencil of Nature, ce volume montre comment Talbot inventait continuellement la photographie. Une sélection de quatre-vingts planches pleine page offre un aperçu thématique de l'œuvre de Talbot, reproduisant des images qui documentent ses voyages, sa maison et sa famille, ainsi que ses intérêts intellectuels, de la science à la littérature en passant par les langues anciennes. Une introduction illustrée replace l'œuvre de Talbot dans le contexte d'une Grande-Bretagne en pleine modernisation, ainsi que dans son propre milieu social et intellectuel, et explique comment le procédé concurrent du daguerréotype a incité Talbot à améliorer ses propres techniques et à rechercher de nouvelles fonctions et utilisations pour les photographies sur papier. Cette sélection évocatrice témoigne de la quête constante de Talbot pour de nouvelles avancées photographiques et offre une fenêtre fascinante sur les archives d'un homme extraordinairement déterminé et créatif.
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Geoffrey Batchen is professor of the history of art at the University of Oxford.
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Hardback. Etat : Good. William Henry Fox Talbot is celebrated today as one of the English inventors of photography. He made early photographic experiments in the 1830s, released the details of his photogenic drawing process in January 1839, and introduced important innovations to the medium in the 1840s and 1850s. Drawing on archive material in the Bodleian Library, including three albums given by Talbot to his sister, Horatia Feilding, as well as his illustrated books, Sun Pictures in Scotland and The Pencil of Nature, this volume shows how Talbot was continually inventing photography anew. A selection of eighty full-page plates provides a thematic survey of Talbot?s work, reproducing images that document his travels, his home and his family, as well as his intellectual interests, from science to literature to ancient languages. An illustrated introduction places Talbot?s work within the context of a modernising Britain, as well as within his own social and intellectual milieu, and explores how the competing daguerreotype process spurred Talbot to improve his own techniques and seek new functions and uses for paper-based photographs. This evocative selection is testament to Talbot?s constant quest for new photographic advances, offering a compelling window into the archives of an extraordinarily determined and creative man. N° de réf. du vendeur 00106898483
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Hardback. Etat : Good. William Henry Fox Talbot is celebrated today as one of the English inventors of photography. He made early photographic experiments in the 1830s, released the details of his photogenic drawing process in January 1839, and introduced important innovations to the medium in the 1840s and 1850s. Drawing on archive material in the Bodleian Library, including three albums given by Talbot to his sister, Horatia Feilding, as well as his illustrated books, Sun Pictures in Scotland and The Pencil of Nature, this volume shows how Talbot was continually inventing photography anew. A selection of eighty full-page plates provides a thematic survey of Talbot?s work, reproducing images that document his travels, his home and his family, as well as his intellectual interests, from science to literature to ancient languages. An illustrated introduction places Talbot?s work within the context of a modernising Britain, as well as within his own social and intellectual milieu, and explores how the competing daguerreotype process spurred Talbot to improve his own techniques and seek new functions and uses for paper-based photographs. This evocative selection is testament to Talbot?s constant quest for new photographic advances, offering a compelling window into the archives of an extraordinarily determined and creative man. N° de réf. du vendeur CIN1851245960G
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