Impressed by light : British photographs from paper negatives, 1840-1860 /
Taylor, Roger,1940-
Schaaf, Larry J.(Larry John),1947-
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
National Gallery of Art (U.S.).
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Washington : National Gallery of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Photography and an age of paradox -- The formative years : the calotype in the 1840s -- The great exhibition of 1851 -- Battling patents and gaining legitimacy -- The calotype finds its place -- Subjects fit for the camera -- British sensibilities, 1855-1857 -- Echoes of the grand tour -- Under an Indian sky -- Commercialism advances, the calotype declines.
Calotype