William Henry Fox Talbot

Fotografie

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A beautiful monograph on the work of the inventor of modern photography.

Geoffrey Batchen

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Hardback
English
270 x 216 mm, 10 5/8 x 8 1/2 in
128 pp
56 Farbabbildungen
ISBN-13: 9780714841984
ISBN-10: 0714841986

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The father of modern photography, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), developed the process by which photographic images could be reproduced creating beautiful and fascinating pictures of his home Lacock Abbey, portraits of his family and still-lifes of plant life, cloth and household objects
This is the best introductory monograph to Fox Talbot’s work, with an accessible and wide-ranging selection of 55 images presented chronologically to document the development of his photography
Includes both iconic images such as his landscapes made around Lacock Abbey, and lesser-known, but no less interesting, work that reveals the wide range of Fox Talbot’s oeuvre, which established the photographic genres that remain integral to the medium today
Features a number of images from Fox Talbot’s publications which include The Pencil of Nature (1844–46), the first photographically illustrated book, and Sun Pictures in Scotland (1845) – both produced in an attempt to introduce photography to a wider audience
The engaging introductory essay is written by an expert on the history of photography and a commentary accompanies each image in the elegant design offering further information on Fox Talbot's photography and the scientific process behind the making of the negatives
The perfect book for the many photography enthusiasts and students interested in the work of this pioneer of nineteenth-century art and science

Über den Autor

Geoffrey Batchen is a prolific author, curator and editor and a specialist in the theory and history of photography. He has written a number of books including a detailed analysis of photography’s emergence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography (1997) and a collection of essays on photography and electronic culture, Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History (2001). His book Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance accompanied an exhibition of vernacular photographs that he curated for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2004, and which travelled on to Iceland, England and the United States. He teaches the history of photography at CUNY Graduate Center in New York, having previous taught at the University of New Mexico and the University of California, San Diego.