Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry

An intimate look at the journeys of two men--a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist--as they struggled...
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Author: Roger Watson
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Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry by Watson, Roger

Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry

Dhs. 128.74

Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry

Dhs. 128.74
Author: Roger Watson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Roger Watson, Helen Rappaport
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 01/20/2015
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781250061416

About the Author

ROGER WATSON is a world authority on the early history of photography. He is currently the Curator of the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock Abbey and an occasional lecturer at DeMontfort University in Leicester.

HELEN RAPPAPORT is a historian with a specialization in the nineteenth century. She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters, as well as eight other published books, including The Last Days of the Romanovs and A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death that Changed the Monarchy.

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