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Inventing photography : William Henry Fox Talbot in the Bodleian Library / Geoffrey Batchen.

by Batchen, Geoffrey, author.

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Oxford : Bodleian Library Publishing, 2023.

Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877.

Photography -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

9781851245963 (hardcover) :

1851245960 (hardcover) :

189 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

"Drawing on archival material in the Bodleian Library, including three albums given by Talbot to his sister, Horatia Feilding, and his illustrated books, Sun Pictures in Scotland and The Pencil of Nature, this volume shows how Talbot was continually inventing photography anew. A selection of eighty full-page plates provides a thematic survey of Talbot's work, reproducing images that document his travels, his home, and his family, as well as his intellectual interests, from science to literature to ancient languages. An illustrated introduction places Talbot's work within the context of a modernizing Britain, as well as within his own social and intellectual milieu, and explores how the competing daguerreotype process spurred Talbot to improve his own techniques and seek new functions and uses for paper-based photographs. This evocative selection is a testament to Talbot's constant quest for new photographic advances, offering a window into the archives of an extraordinarily determined and creative man."-- Publisher.

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