书名：Inventing Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot in the Bodleian Library / 摄影的发明：威廉·亨利·福克斯·塔尔博特与博德利图书馆
定价：468.0
ISBN：9781851245963
作者：Geoffrey Batchen
版次：1
出版时间：2023-03

内容提要：

书 名：Inventing Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot in the Bodleian Library / 摄影的发明：威廉·亨利·福克斯·塔尔博特与博德利图书馆

作 者：Geoffrey Batchen

出 版：Bodleian Library ，2023

装 帧：精装，240页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：15.6*23.4 cm

 

 

威廉·亨利·福克斯·塔尔博特如今被誉为摄影术的英国发明者。他在19世纪30年代进行了早期的摄影实验，于1839年1月公布了他关于感光绘图过程的细节，并在19世纪40年代和50年代为这一媒介引入了重要的创新。

 

本书利用了博德利图书馆中的档案资料，包括塔尔博特赠送给其妹妹霍雷莎·菲尔德的三本相册，以及他的两本配图著作《苏格兰阳光图片》和《自然之笔》，展示了塔尔博特如何不断地对摄影进行新的发明创造。精选的八十幅全页插图以主题形式概述了塔尔博特的作品，再现了记录他旅行、家庭、家人以及他知识兴趣的图像，这些兴趣涵盖了科学、文学到古代语言等多个领域。

 

一篇配图引言将塔尔博特的作品置于现代化进程中的英国背景之下，同时也置于他自己的社会和知识环境之中，并探讨了竞争的达盖尔银版法如何激励塔尔博特改进自己的技术，并寻求纸质照片的新功能和用途。

 

这一引人入胜的精选集见证了塔尔博特对摄影新进步的不懈追求，为我们打开了一扇通往这位极具决心和创造力的伟人档案库的迷人窗口。

 

William Henry Fox Talbot is celebrated today as the English inventor of photography. He made early photographic experiments in the 1830s, released the details of his photogenic drawing process in January 1839, and introduced important innovations to the medium in the 1840s and 1850s.

Drawing on archive material in the Bodleian Library, including three albums given by Talbot to his sister, Horatia Feilding, as well as 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 modernising 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 testament to Talbot’s constant quest for new photographic advances, offering a compelling window into the archives of an extraordinarily determined and creative man.