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Capturing the Light : The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rival
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Era
- 1800s
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Illustrated
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781250061416
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
1250061415
ISBN-13
9781250061416
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202459266
Product Key Features
Book Title
Capturing the Light : the Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Cultural Heritage, General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, History, Science & Technology
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Photography, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
An energetically written and deftly paced history of photography's origins, including the intricate rivalries surrounding Talbot and Daguerre's laborious attempts to permanently capture images seen through the camera obscura . . . gripping popular history., "A dual biography of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot, two men who separately announced inventions of photographic processes in France and England in 1839. The book is very readable, even exciting--good on the science and particularly good on the characters and social backgrounds of the two men. . . . Silver nitrate has been superseded by pixels for image making, but it was once the cutting edge, with all the excitement that goes with the miraculous." -- Wall Street Journal "A well-timed and welcome history of the invention and spread of photography in the nineteenth century." -- Booklist "An energetically written and deftly paced history of photography's origins, including the intricate rivalries surrounding Talbot and Daguerre's laborious attempts to permanently capture images seen through the camera obscura . . . gripping popular history." -- Publishers Weekly "Rappaport offers an absorbing, perceptive, and detailed picture of a constitutional monarchy in crisis." -- Publishers Weekly on A Magnificent Obsession "As shocking and immediate as a thriller. . . . [A] gripping read." -- People magazine, 3 ½ stars on The Last Days of the Romanovs "Quite simply, stunning. . . . Chilling and poignant, this is how history books should be written." -- Alison Weir, author of Henry VIII: The King and His Court on The Last Days of the Romanovs, A well-timed and welcome history of the invention and spread of photography in the nineteenth century., "Very readable, even exciting-good on the science and particularly good on the characters and social backgrounds of the two men. . . . Silver nitrate has been superseded by pixels for image making, but it was once the cutting edge, with all the excitement that goes with the miraculous." -Wall Street Journal "A chronicle of the race to invent photography . . . a lively, sympathetic story of both men, along with others present at the birth of photography, an art form that owes so much to chemistry." - Boston Globe "A well-timed and welcome history of the invention and spread of photography in the nineteenth century." - Booklist, "A dual biography of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot, two men who separately announced inventions of photographic processes in France and England in 1839. The book is very readable, even exciting-good on the science and particularly good on the characters and social backgrounds of the two men. . . . Silver nitrate has been superseded by pixels for image making, but it was once the cutting edge, with all the excitement that goes with the miraculous." -Wall Street Journal "A well-timed and welcome history of the invention and spread of photography in the nineteenth century." - Booklist "An energetically written and deftly paced history of photography's origins, including the intricate rivalries surrounding Talbot and Daguerre's laborious attempts to permanently capture images seen through the camera obscura . . . gripping popular history." - Publishers Weekly "Rappaport offers an absorbing, perceptive, and detailed picture of a constitutional monarchy in crisis." - Publishers Weekly on A Magnificent Obsession "As shocking and immediate as a thriller. . . . [A] gripping read." - People magazine (3 ½ stars) on The Last Days of the Romanovs "Quite simply, stunning. . . . Chilling and poignant, this is how history books should be written." -Alison Weir, author of Henry VIII: The King and His Court on The Last Days of the Romanovs, Rappaport offers an absorbing, perceptive, and detailed picture of a constitutional monarchy in crisis., A dual biography of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot, two men who separately announced inventions of photographic processes in France and England in 1839. The book is very readable, even exciting--good on the science and particularly good on the characters and social backgrounds of the two men. . . . Silver nitrate has been superseded by pixels for image making, but it was once the cutting edge, with all the excitement that goes with the miraculous., "A dual biography of Louis-Jacques-Mand Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot, two men who separately announced inventions of photographic processes in France and England in 1839. The book is very readable, even exciting--good on the science and particularly good on the characters and social backgrounds of the two men. . . . Silver nitrate has been superseded by pixels for image making, but it was once the cutting edge, with all the excitement that goes with the miraculous." -- Wall Street Journal "A well-timed and welcome history of the invention and spread of photography in the nineteenth century." -- Booklist "An energetically written and deftly paced history of photography's origins, including the intricate rivalries surrounding Talbot and Daguerre's laborious attempts to permanently capture images seen through the camera obscura . . . gripping popular history." -- Publishers Weekly "Rappaport offers an absorbing, perceptive, and detailed picture of a constitutional monarchy in crisis." -- Publishers Weekly on A Magnificent Obsession "As shocking and immediate as a thriller. . . . [A] gripping read." -- People magazine, 3 stars on The Last Days of the Romanovs "Quite simply, stunning. . . . Chilling and poignant, this is how history books should be written." -- Alison Weir, author of Henry VIII: The King and His Court on The Last Days of the Romanovs
Dewey Decimal
770.9
Synopsis
An intimate look at the journeys of two men--a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist--as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photography During the 1830s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific enquiry fostered by the industrial revolution, two quite different men--one in France, one in England--developed their own dramatically different photographic processes in total ignorance of each other's work. These two lone geniuses--Henry Fox Talbot in the seclusion of his English country estate at Lacock Abbey and Louis Daguerre in the heart of post-revolutionary Paris--through diligence, disappointment and sheer hard work overcame extraordinary odds to achieve the one thing man had for centuries been trying to do--to solve the ancient puzzle of how to capture the light and in so doing make nature 'paint its own portrait'. With the creation of their two radically different processes--the Daguerreotype and the Talbotype--these two giants of early photography changed the world and how we see it. Drawing on a wide range of original, contemporary sources and featuring plates in colour, sepia and black and white, many of them rare or previously unseen, Capturing the Light by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport charts an extraordinary tale of genius, rivalry and human resourcefulness in the quest to produce the world's first photograph.
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