Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 by Roger TAYLOR

Author: Roger TAYLOR
eBook Title: Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860
ISBN10: 1588392252
ISBN13: 978-1588392251
Language: English
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art; First edition (2007)
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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.