Name: Capturing the Light By Roger Watson
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Capturing the Light: The birth of photography by Roger Watson

Capturing the Light starts with a tiny scrap of purple-tinged paper, 176 years old and about the size of a postage stamp. On it you can just make out a tiny, ghostly image of a gothic window, an image so small and perfect that it `might be supposed to be the work of some Lilliputian artist': the world's first photographic negative.

This captivating book traces the lives of two very different men in the 1830s, both racing to be the first to solve one of the world's oldest problems: how to capture an image and keep it for ever. On the one hand there is Henry Fox Talbot: a quiet, solitary gentleman-amateur tinkering away on his farm in the English countryside. On the other Louis Daguerre, a flamboyant, charismatic French showman in search of fame and fortune.

Only one question remains: who will get there first?

About Roger Watson

Roger Watson is a world authority on the early history of photography. He is the Curator of the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock Abbey and an occasional lecturer at DeMontfort University in Leicester. He is the co-author, along with historian Helen Rappaport, of Capturing the Light. Helen Rappaport is a historian with a specialism in the nineteenth century. She is the author of eleven published books, including Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs and Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death that Changed the Monarchy. She is also the author, with Roger Watson, of Capturing the Light. For more information, you can visit her website at www.helenrappaport.com.

- Section - i: List of Illustrations
- Section - ii: Prologue: My First Daguerreotype
Chapter - 1: The Locked Treasure Room
Chapter - 2: Shadowgrams
Chapter - 3: The Box of Wonders
Chapter - 4: An Inheritance
Chapter - 5: The Panorama
Chapter - 6: An Innate Love of Knowledge
Chapter - 7: More Beautiful than Nature
Chapter - 8: Lacock Abbey
Chapter - 9: Seeking the Impossible
Chapter - 10: The Heliograph
Chapter - 11: The Melancholy Artist
Chapter - 12: Fixing the Image
Chapter - 13: The Latticed Window, August 1835
Chapter - 14: The Magic Cabinet
Chapter - 15: The Most Wonderful Discovery Ever Made
Chapter - 16: From Today, Painting is Dead
Chapter - 17: Photogenic Drawing
Chapter - 18: The Academie des Sciences, August 1839
Chapter - 19: Daguerreotypomania
Chapter - 20: Portraiture
Chapter - 21: The Pencil of Nature
Chapter - 22: The Monopoly of the Sunshine
Chapter - 23: The Great Exhibition of 1851
Chapter - 24: The Reluctant Inventor
Chapter - 25: Art or Science?
Chapter - 26: The Mute Testimony of the Picture
Chapter - 27: The Eye of History
- Section - iii: Epilogue: Everyman's Art
- Acknowledgements - iv: Acknowledgements
- Section - v: Notes
- Section - vi: Bibliography
- Index - vii: Index

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GOR007015943

ISBN 13

9780230768864

ISBN 10

0230768865

Title

Capturing the Light: The birth of photography by Roger Watson

Author

Roger Watson

Condition

Used - Very Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Year published

20130425

Number of pages

336

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