Capturing the Light The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry
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26.11.2013
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A "thoroughly enjoyable" account of the English scientist and the French artist, each toiling alone, who invented modern photography (
The Wall Street Journal).
During the 1830s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific inquiry 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 color, sepia, and black and white, many of them rare or previously unseen,
Capturing the Light charts an extraordinary tale of genius, rivalry, and human resourcefulness in the quest to produce the world's first photograph.
"Energetically written and deftly paced... gripping popular history." -
Publishers Weekly
The Wall Street Journal).
During the 1830s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific inquiry 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 color, sepia, and black and white, many of them rare or previously unseen,
Capturing the Light charts an extraordinary tale of genius, rivalry, and human resourcefulness in the quest to produce the world's first photograph.
"Energetically written and deftly paced... gripping popular history." -
Publishers Weekly
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