Capturing the light : the birth of photography, a true story...

Capturing the light: the birth of photography, a true story of genius and rivalry

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Watson, Roger (Museum curator)

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St. Martin's Press

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2013

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English

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1 of 1	East Lyme Public Adult Non-Fiction	770.9224 Watson
1 of 1	Guilford Adult Non-Fiction	770.92 WATSON
1 of 1	Wallingford Adult Nonfiction	770.9224 WATSON

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2013

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x, 306 pages, [8] pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm

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Relates the quest of two very different geniuses in the 1830s, totally ignorant of each other's work, to solve the ancient puzzle of capturing the world around them, describing how they invented two dramatically different photographic processes.

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Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, -- 1787-1851
Inventors -- England -- Biography
Inventors -- France -- Biography
Photographers -- England -- Biography
Photographers -- France -- Biography
Photography -- England -- History -- 19th century
Photography -- France -- History -- 19th century
Talbot, William Henry Fox, -- 1800-1877

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Capturing the light : the birth of photography, a true story of genius and rivalry

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Capturing the light

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the birth of photography, a true story of genius and rivalry

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Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé
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Photographers
Photography
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