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Author Watson, Roger (Museum curator)
Title Capturing the light / Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport.
Cover Title Capturing the light : a true story of genius, rivalry and the birth of photography
Publisher London : Pan Macmillan, 2018.


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Descript 306 pages.
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Note First published : Macmillan, 2013.
Contents My first daguerreotype -- The locked treasure room -- Shadowgrams -- The box of wonders -- An inheritance -- The panorama -- An innate love of knowledge -- More beautiful than nature -- Lacock Abbey -- Seeking the impossible -- The heliograph -- The melancholy artist -- Fixing the image -- The latticed window, August 1835 -- The magic cabinet -- The most wonderful discovery ever made -- From today, painting is dead -- Photogenic drawing -- The Académie des Sciences, August 1839 -- Daguerreotypomania -- Portraiture -- The pencil of nature -- The monopoly of the sunshine -- The Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The reluctant inventor -- Art or science? -- The mute testimony of the picture -- The eye of history -- Everyman's art.
ISBN 9781509892037
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Author Watson, Roger (Museum curator)
Subject Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851.
Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877.
Photographers -- France -- Biography.
Photographers -- England -- Biography.
Inventors -- France -- Biography.
Inventors -- England -- Biography.
Photography -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Photography -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Alt author Rappaport, Helen.
Cover Title Capturing the light : a true story of genius, rivalry and the birth of photography
Descript 306 pages.
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Note First published : Macmillan, 2013.
Contents My first daguerreotype -- The locked treasure room -- Shadowgrams -- The box of wonders -- An inheritance -- The panorama -- An innate love of knowledge -- More beautiful than nature -- Lacock Abbey -- Seeking the impossible -- The heliograph -- The melancholy artist -- Fixing the image -- The latticed window, August 1835 -- The magic cabinet -- The most wonderful discovery ever made -- From today, painting is dead -- Photogenic drawing -- The Académie des Sciences, August 1839 -- Daguerreotypomania -- Portraiture -- The pencil of nature -- The monopoly of the sunshine -- The Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The reluctant inventor -- Art or science? -- The mute testimony of the picture -- The eye of history -- Everyman's art.
ISBN 9781509892037
Author Watson, Roger (Museum curator)
Subject Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851.
Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877.
Photographers -- France -- Biography.
Photographers -- England -- Biography.
Inventors -- France -- Biography.
Inventors -- England -- Biography.
Photography -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Photography -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Alt author Rappaport, Helen.
Cover Title Capturing the light : a true story of genius, rivalry and the birth of photography
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  TR 140 D3 W3  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851.
Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877.
Photographers -- France -- Biography.
Photographers -- England -- Biography.
Inventors -- France -- Biography.
Inventors -- England -- Biography.
Photography -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Photography -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Descript 306 pages.
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Note First published : Macmillan, 2013.
Contents My first daguerreotype -- The locked treasure room -- Shadowgrams -- The box of wonders -- An inheritance -- The panorama -- An innate love of knowledge -- More beautiful than nature -- Lacock Abbey -- Seeking the impossible -- The heliograph -- The melancholy artist -- Fixing the image -- The latticed window, August 1835 -- The magic cabinet -- The most wonderful discovery ever made -- From today, painting is dead -- Photogenic drawing -- The Académie des Sciences, August 1839 -- Daguerreotypomania -- Portraiture -- The pencil of nature -- The monopoly of the sunshine -- The Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The reluctant inventor -- Art or science? -- The mute testimony of the picture -- The eye of history -- Everyman's art.
Alt author Rappaport, Helen.
ISBN 9781509892037
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