Author: Taylor, Roger ; Larry J Schaaf
Title: Impressed by Light : British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860
Description: New York, NY, The Metropolian Museum of Art, 2007. Hardcover. Monochromatic illustrated dustjacket with white text, brown boards. xiv, 438 pp. Features illustrations. "This richly illustrated book tells the first full history of the calotype, embedding it in the social context that crucially formed it: Britain's changing fortunes, intricate class structure, ever-growing industrialization, and new spirit under Queen Victoria. Of the 118 early photographs presented here in meticulously printed plates, many have never before been published or exhibited. And the histories of 500 calotypists, most previously unknown, are detailed in the volume's biographical dictionary, a valuable work of far-reaching scholarship the further demonstrates the major role played by the paper negative in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. As new, still in wrapping .

Keywords: Photography ; British Photography ; ; Museum Exhibitions - Photography


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