WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT AND THE PROMISE OF PHOTOGRAPHY

This beautiful publication serves as a primer on the work of William Henry Fox Talbot, a true interdisciplinary innovator who drew o n his knowledge of art, botany, chemistry and optics to become one of the inventors of photography in 1839. Talbots photogenic dra wings (photograms), calotypes and salted paper prints are some of the first-ever examples of images captured on paper.Accompanying an exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh opening in November 2017, this book brings together more than 30 photographs b y Talbot tha...[Llegir més]