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"William Henry Fox Talbot is celebrated today as the English inventor of photography. He first made early photographic experiments in the 1830s and released the details of his photogenic drawing process in January 1839. He continued to introduce important innovations to the medium in the 1840s and 1850s. Drawing on archival material in the Bodleian Library, including three albums given by Talbot to his sister, Horatia Feilding, and his illustrated books, Sun Pictures in Scotland and The Pencil of Nature, this volume shows how Talbot was continually inventing photography anew. A selection of eighty full-page plates provides a thematic survey of Talbot's work, reproducing images that document his travels, his home, and his family, as well as his intellectual interests, from science to literature to ancient languages. An illustrated introduction places Talbot's work within the context of a modernizing Britain, as well as within his own social and intellectual milieu, and explores how the competing daguerreotype process spurred Talbot to improve his own techniques and seek new functions and uses for paper-based photographs. This evocative selection is a testament to Talbot's constant quest for new photographic advances, offering a window into the archives of an extraordinarily determined and creative man--

This book features 24 of William Henry Fox Talbot's experimental prints. Offered to the reader as enigmatic physical artefacts, an accompanying essay illustrated with comparative images places these photographs in a broad historical context, revealing what relevance Talbot's experiments have to contemporary concepts of the art of photography.

An engaging and provocative account of photography''s first commercial applications in England and their global implications. This book addresses a persistent gap in the study of photography''s history, moving beyond an appreciation of single breakthrough works to consider the photographic image''s newfound reproducibility and capacity for circulation through newsprint and other media in the nineteenth century.

British conceptual artist John Stezaker (b. 1949) is known for his distinctive, often deceptively simple, collages. Using antique travel postcards, famous movie starlet headshots from the 1940s, and old movie stills, Stezaker creates a world full of mystery and humor in each artwork. Critic David Campany described Stezaker as drawn to that very sli