book cover: Miriam Brusius: William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography (2013)
Publication
William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age - a 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 Talbot’s 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.

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN
978-0-300-17934-7
Year
2013
Pages
308
Language
English
Series
Studies in British art ; 23