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William Henry Fox Talbot : photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
- Title
- William Henry Fox Talbot : photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum / Larry J. Schaaf.
- Author
- Schaaf, Larry J. (Larry John), 1947-
- Publication
- Los Angeles, Calif. : J. Paul Getty Museum ; Garsington : Windsor, 2002.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- J. Paul Getty Museum.
- Description
- 144 pages : color illustrations; 20 cm
- Summary
- "In 1839 the almost simultaneous announcement of the discovery of photography was made by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (French, 1787-1851) in Paris and William Henry Fox Talbot (English, 1800-1877) in London. This volume traces Talbot's picture-making method, which proved to be the basis for later photography. Larry J.
- Schaaf, an independent photohistorian and research professor at the University of Glasgow and the director of the Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot Project, discusses approximately fifty of Talbot's images in the collection of the Getty Museum."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- In focus.
- Subject
- ISBN
- 0892366605(pbk.)
- OCLC
- 50866758
- ocm50866758
- SCSB-14612330
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries