William Henry Fox Talbot : beyond photography / edited by Mirjam Brusius, Katrina Dean, and Chitra Ramalingam.

"William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age-- a time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial changes. His manuscripts, now in the archive of the British Library, r...

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Other Authors: Brusius, Mirjam (Editor, Contributor), Dean, Katrina (Editor, Contributor), Ramalingam, Chitra, 1979- (Editor, Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : London : The Yale Center for British Art ; The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, [2013]
Series:Studies in British art ; 23.
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Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION : TALBOT AND HIS ARCHIVE
  • Beyond Photography / Chitra Ramalingam
  • Lacock Abbey and the Country House Archive / Katrina Dean
  • MODELS FOR INVESTIGATION
  • Talbot's First Lens: Botanical Vision as an Exact Science / Anne Secord
  • "Merely a Speculation of the Mind"? William Henry Fox Talbot and Mathematics / June Barrow-Green
  • In the Shadow of Scott: Talbot and the Wizard of the North / Graham Smith
  • INVENTION AND DISCOVERY
  • Nature as Drawing Mistress / Herta Wolf
  • Talbot's Art of Discovery / Vered Maimon
  • "The Caxton of Photography": Talbots Etchings of Light / Larry J. Schaaf
  • INSTITUTIONS AND NETWORKS
  • Bel and the Dragons: Deciphering Cuneiform after Decipherment / Eleanor Robson
  • From Photographic Science to Scientific Photography: Talbot and Decipherment at the British Museum around 1850 / Mirjam Brusius
  • "The Most Transitory of Things": Talbot and the Science of Instantaneous Vision / Chitra Ramalingam
  • Commentary / Simon Schaffer.