
William Henry Fox Talbot
Beyond Photography
Yale University Press
Published on 29. October 2013
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-300-17934-7 (ISBN)
Description
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age-a time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial changes. His manuscripts, now in the archive of the British Library, reveal the connections and contrasts between his photographic innovations and his investigations into optics, mathematics, botany, archaeology, and classical studies.
Drawing on Talbot's fascinating letters, diaries, research notebooks, botanical specimens, and photographic prints, distinguished scholars from a range of disciplines, including historians of science, art, and photography, broaden our understanding of Talbot as a Victorian intellectual and a man of science.
Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Drawing on Talbot's fascinating letters, diaries, research notebooks, botanical specimens, and photographic prints, distinguished scholars from a range of disciplines, including historians of science, art, and photography, broaden our understanding of Talbot as a Victorian intellectual and a man of science.
Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
109 color illus.
Dimensions
Height: 257 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1080 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-17934-7 (9780300179347)
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Mirjam Brusius is postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Harvard University. Katrina Dean is a university archivist at Melbourne University. Chitra Ramalingam is postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.