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St. Martin's Griffin
February 2015
On Sale: January 20, 2015
ISBN: 1250061415
EAN: 9781250061416
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Non-Fiction Photography
An intimate look at the journeys of two men—a gentleman
scientist and a visionary artist—as they struggled to
capture the world around them, and in the process invented
modern photography During the 1830s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific
enquiry fostered by the industrial revolution, two quite
different men—one in France, one in England—developed their
own dramatically different photographic processes in total
ignorance of each other's work. These two lone
geniuses—Henry Fox Talbot in the seclusion of his English
country estate at Lacock Abbey and Louis Daguerre in the
heart of post-revolutionary Paris—through diligence,
disappointment and sheer hard work overcame extraordinary
odds to achieve the one thing man had for centuries been
trying to do—to solve the ancient puzzle of how to capture
the light and in so doing make nature 'paint its own
portrait'. With the creation of their two radically
different processes—the Daguerreotype and the
Talbotype—these two giants of early photography changed the
world and how we see it. Drawing on a wide range of original, contemporary sources
and featuring plates in colour, sepia and black and white,
many of them rare or previously unseen, Capturing the Light
by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport charts an extraordinary
tale of genius, rivalry and human resourcefulness in the
quest to produce the world's first photograph.
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