William Henry Fox Talbot
Subtitle: photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Contributors: Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877.
Series: In focus; In focus (J. Paul Getty Museum)
Publisher: Getty Publications; J. Paul Getty Trust Publications; J. Paul Getty Museum
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Talbot, William Henry Fox, -- 1800-1877; J. Paul Getty Museum -- Photograph collections; Photography, Artistic; Photography -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Photograph collections -- California -- Los Angeles
Description: "In 1839 the almost simultaneous announcement of the discovery of photography was made by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (French, 1787-1851) in Paris and William Henry Fox Talbot (English, 1800-1877) in London. This volume traces Talbot's picture-making method, which proved to be the basis for later photography. Larry J.

Schaaf, an independent photohistorian and research professor at the University of Glasgow and the director of the Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot Project, discusses approximately fifty of Talbot's images in the collection of the Getty Museum."--BOOK JACKET.