Impressed by light : British photographs from paper negatives, 1840-1860
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Impressed by light : British photographs from paper negatives, 1840-1860
Metropolitan Museum of Art , National Gallery of Art , Yale University Press, c2007
- : Metropolitan Museum of art
- : Yale University Press
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Exhibition catalogue
Catalog of the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 24-Dec.30, 2007, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Feb.3-May 4, 2008, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, May 26-Sept.7, 2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. 414-426) and index
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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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