Capturing the light: the birth of photography, a true story of genius and rivalry
(Book)
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.
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.
Notes
Watson, R., & Rappaport, H. (2013). Capturing the light: the birth of photography, a true story of genius and rivalry. New York, St Martins Pr.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Watson, Roger and Helen. Rappaport. 2013. Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry. New York, St Martins Pr.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Watson, Roger and Helen. Rappaport, Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry. New York, St Martins Pr, 2013.
MLA Citation (style guide)Watson, Roger and Helen Rappaport. Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry. New York, St Martins Pr, 2013.
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505 | 0 | |a Prologue: My First Daguerreotype -- The Locked Treasure Room -- Shadowgrams -- The Box of Wonders -- An Inheritance -- The Panorama -- An Innate Love of Knowledge -- More Beautiful than Nature -- Lacock Abbey -- Seeking the Impossible -- The Heliograph -- The Melancholy Artist -- Fixing the Image -- The Latticed Window, August 1835 -- The Magic Cabinet -- The Most Wonderful Discovery Ever Made -- From Today, Painting is Dead -- Photogenic Drawing. | |
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