Roger Watson: Capturing the Light

Cover: 9781509892037 | Capturing the Light | Roger Watson (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

The story of two lone geniuses and the extraordinary race to invent photography

Über den Autor

Roger Watson is a world authority on the early history of photography. He is currently the Curator of the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock Abbey and an occasional lecturer at DeMontfort University in Leicester.

Helen Rappaport is a historian with a specialism in the nineteenth century and revolutionary Russia. She is the author of eight published books, including Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs and Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death that Changed the Monarchy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section - i: List of Illustrations Section - ii: Prologue: My First Daguerreotype Chapter - 1: The Locked Treasure Room Chapter - 2: Shadowgrams Chapter - 3: The Box of Wonders Chapter - 4: An Inheritance Chapter - 5: The Panorama Chapter - 6: An Innate Love of Knowledge Chapter - 7: More Beautiful than Nature Chapter - 8: Lacock Abbey Chapter - 9: Seeking the Impossible Chapter - 10: The Heliograph Chapter - 11: The Melancholy Artist Chapter - 12: Fixing the Image Chapter - 13: The Latticed Window, August 1835 Chapter - 14: The Magic Cabinet Chapter - 15: The Most Wonderful Discovery Ever Made Chapter - 16: From Today, Painting is Dead Chapter - 17: Photogenic Drawing Chapter - 18: The Académie des Sciences, August 1839 Chapter - 19: Daguerreotypomania Chapter - 20: Portraiture Chapter - 21: The Pencil of Nature Chapter - 22: The Monopoly of the Sunshine Chapter - 23: The Great Exhibition of 1851 Chapter - 24: The Reluctant Inventor Chapter - 25: Art or Science? Chapter - 26: The Mute Testimony of the Picture Chapter - 27: The Eye of History Section - iii: Epilogue: Everyman¿s Art Acknowledgements - iv: Acknowledgements Section - v: Notes Section - vi: Bibliography Index - vii: Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Biographien , Importe
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781509892037
ISBN-10:	1509892036
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Watson, Roger Rappaport, Helen
Hersteller:	Macmillan
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Roger Watson (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.02.2018
Gewicht:	0,577 kg