Preface 6 MISCELLANEA PHOTOGENICA "A Little bit of Magic Realised" 11 Some tools for Understanding Talbot's Photographs 17 Epilogue 28 THE PLATES 33 Notes 234 A Brief Annotated Bibliography 259 Index and Glossary 260
Winner of the 2000 Association of American Publishers Award for excellence in design and production in professional/scholarly publishing. One of Choice's outstanding academic titles for 2001.
Larry J. Schaaf is an independent photohistorian and a Research Professor at the University of Glasgow. He has written extensively on the early history of photography and has published several books on Talbot, including the Anniversary Facsimile of H. Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature; Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot & the Invention of Photography, and Records of the Dawn of Photography: Talbot's Notebooks P & Q.
A nicely illusrated and well researched overview ... Library Journal [A] lushly produced volume of more than 100 colorplates beautifully framed on creamy paper ... Schaaf ... brings an understated acumen to the selections. Publishers Weekly Lavish and scholarly ... -- Geoff Dyer The Independent As spectacular a homage to an inventor of photography as one could imagine, this ... [is an] exquisitely designed and produced volume... Beautiful and informative. New York Times Book Review Simply splendid... The selection of 100 full-color, beautifully printed images is flawless. -- Anne Horton Art and Auction This book is not only about Talbot the inventor, but Talbot the sensitive artist. For an artist he quickly became, as can be seen from his high-quality negatives and photographs ... that Schaaf has brought together in this splendid and very large book, all of them printed in their original format and exact sepia or color tones. -- Meir Ronnen The Jerusalem Post This book would be a wonderful addition to the library of anyone interested in the history of photography. Maine Antique Digest Though strictly monochrome, there is a great range of colours and tones within the prints. Reds, yellows, violets and browns are all present, subtly creating the softest of images. -- Philippa Boston Oxford Times This magnificent quarto volume will now serve as the primary introduction to the photography of William Henry Fox Talbot... Altogether, a masterful production, very highly recommended. Choice With this book what has been only arguable is now demonstrable: that the English inventor of photography William Fox Talbot was an artist ...Talbot and his pictures stand out in long-overdue relief. -- Ben Lifson Art on Paper The 100 images that Mr. Schaaf has exquisitely reproduced for this book are certainly worth owning by all who revere 19th-century English history and the heyday of the Industrial Revolution, and by those who adore beautiful books. -- J. Ross Baughman The Washington Times Destined to become one of the great publications on the history of photography ...This is publishing in the grand style ...Will appeal to anyone interested in the art of photography, whether historical or contemporary ... -- Mark Haworth-Booth The Times Higher Education Supplement These 100 images constitute the full expansion of a photographic consciousness as sophisticated and curious as any that has ever existed. Under Schaaf's direction ... the result is the closest thing possible in ink to the prints themselves and perhaps the finest presentation of photographs in commercial book form to date. The cumulative impact is a palpable sense of discovery, of things glimpsed for the first time and unforgettable as a result. -- Lyle Rexer Art in America The magnificently subtle color reproductions in The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot is the next best thing to looking at the originals... This guide should stimulate anyone interested in the origins of photography to look more deeply at these seminal images and their underlying concepts. Photovision
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