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Title: Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
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| Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) by Metropolitan Museum of Art Impressed by Impressed by Light! |
| It was great to read parts of this book before going to see the exhibit at the National Gallery here in DC. I was almost completely unfamiliar with Fox Talbot and the process he invented - calotypes - the forerunner of the common negative and print technique. The quality of the reporductions in the book is excellent compared with the actual prints in the exhibit although nothing can compare to seeing the exquisite detail in some of the larger prints that were hanging. ALso, compared with the size of the book and its quality the price is an absolute bargain. And I heartily agree with the comments by the other reviewer on the Amazon site. |
| Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) by Metropolitan Museum of Art Benchmark Study |
| Taylor has produced a new benchmark in the study of early photography. The text is cogent, the images carefully chosen and beautifully reproduced. Anyone interested in early British photography will find Schaaf's directory of photographers a great asset in itself. |
| Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) by Metropolitan Museum of Art Book Description |
When photography appeared shortly before 1840, the metal-plate daguerreotype, invented in France, was first to achieve popularity. But the process simultaneously developed in England for capturing an image on a paper negative—from which many positives could be printed—provided the foundation on which photography would build for the next 150 years.
This beautiful book presents more than 120 photographs printed from paper negatives, or calotypes, most never before published. The entire course of the paper negative’s “golden age” is described, from its laborious invention by William Henry Fox Talbot to competition with French photographers and commercial practitioners. Aesthetically ambitious, these richly textured calotypes were created by photographers both eminent and virtually unknown. Also included is an invaluable biographical dictionary of more than 500 British calotypists.
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