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Impressed by light : British photographs from paper negatives, 1840-1860
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- Creator
- Roger Taylor ; biographical dictionary by Larry J. Schaaf in collaboration with Roger Taylor
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- English
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- Publication
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- New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Washington : National Gallery of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
- ©2007
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- xiv, 438 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 30 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781588392251, 1588392252, 9780300124057, 0300124058
- OCLC
- ocn153554420
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-426) and index.
- Photography and an age of paradox -- The formative years : the calotype in the 1840s -- The great exhibition of 1851 -- Battling patents and gaining legitimacy -- The calotype finds its place -- Subjects fit for the camera -- British sensibilities 1855-1857 -- Echoes of the grand tour -- Under an Indian sky -- Commercialism advances, the calotype declines