William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography
English
By (author): Anne Secord Eleanor Robson Graham Smith Herta Wolf June Barrow-Green Larry J. Schaaf Vered Maimon
William Henry Fox Talbot (18001877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Agea time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial changes. His manuscripts, now in the archive of the British Library, reveal the connections and contrasts between his photographic innovations and his investigations into optics, mathematics, botany, archaeology, and classical studies.
Drawing on Talbots fascinating letters, diaries, research notebooks, botanical specimens, and photographic prints, distinguished scholars from a range of disciplines, including historians of science, art, and photography, broaden our understanding of Talbot as a Victorian intellectual and a man of science.
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