Singular images, failed copies : William Henry Fox Talbot and the early photograph /

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"Focusing on early nineteenth-century England-and on the works and texts of the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot-Singular Images, Failed Copies historicizes the conceptualization of photography in that era as part of a major historical change. Treating photography not mer...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Maimon, Vered (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Talbot, William Henry Fox, > 1800-1877.
Photography > Philosophy.
Photographie > Philosophie.
PHOTOGRAPHY > History.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Individual Photographers > General.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Criticism.
COMPUTERS > Digital Media > Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Imaging Systems.
Electronic books.
v > Theses.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Photographic Imagination
  • Part I. British Science and the Conception of Photography: 1. Scientific Method: The Engine of Knowledge; 2. Imagination: The Art of Discovery
  • Part II. Botanical Images and Historical Documents: The First Applications of Photography: 3. Time: Singular Images, Failed Copies; 4. History: Displaced Origins and The Pencil of Nature.

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