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Published by St. Martin's Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 1250009707ISBN 13: 9781250009708
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Published by Macmillan, 2013
ISBN 10: 0230764576ISBN 13: 9780230764576
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good.
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Published by Macmillan, 2013
ISBN 10: 0230768865ISBN 13: 9780230768864
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Used - Very Good. 2013. Open market ed. Paperback. Pap. Slight shelf-wear, clean internals. Very Good.
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Published by Pan Macmillan, 2014
ISBN 10: 1447212584ISBN 13: 9781447212584
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Published by St. Martin's Griffin, 2015
ISBN 10: 1250061415ISBN 13: 9781250061416
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
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Published by New York: St. Martin's Press, 2013
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
1st U.S. edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Description; x, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates: color illustrations; 25 cm. Decorated end-pages. Includes bibliographical references (pages [278]-295) and index. Scope and content; "An intimate look at the journeys of two men--a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist--as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photography. During the 1830s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific enquiry fostered by the industrial revolution, two quite different men--one in France, one in England--developed their own dramatically different photographic processes in total ignorance of each other's work. These two lone geniuses--Henry Fox Talbot in the seclusion of his English country estate at Lacock Abbey and Louis Daguerre in the heart of post-revolutionary Paris--through diligence, disappointment and sheer hard work overcame extraordinary odds to achieve the one thing man had for centuries been trying to do--to solve the ancient puzzle of how to capture the light and in so doing make nature 'paint its own portrait'. With the creation of their two radically different processes--the Daguerreotype and the Talbotype--these two giants of early photography changed the world and how we see it. Drawing on a wide range of original, contemporary sources and featuring plates in colour, sepia and black and white, many of them rare or previously unseen, Capturing the Light charts an extraordinary tale of genius, rivalry and human resourcefulness in the quest to produce the world's first photograph"-- Provided by publisher. Contents; Prologue: My First Daguerreotype -- The Locked Treasure Room -- Shadowgrams -- The Box of Wonders -- An Inheritance -- The Panorama -- An Innate Love of Knowledge -- More Beautiful than Nature -- Lacock Abbey -- Seeking the Impossible -- The Heliograph -- The Melancholy Artist -- Fixing the Image -- The Latticed Window, August 1835 -- The Magic Cabinet -- The Most Wonderful Discovery Ever Made -- From Today, Painting is Dead -- Photogenic Drawing. Subjects; Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851. Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877. Photographers--France--Biography. Photographers--England--Biography. Inventors--France--Biography. Inventors--England--Biography. PHOTOGRAPHY / History. 1 Kg.
Published by New York: St. Martin's Press, 2013
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
1st U.S. edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Description; x, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates: color illustrations; 25 cm. Decorated end-pages. Includes bibliographical references (pages [278]-295) and index. Scope and content; "An intimate look at the journeys of two men--a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist--as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photography. During the 1830s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific enquiry fostered by the industrial revolution, two quite different men--one in France, one in England--developed their own dramatically different photographic processes in total ignorance of each other's work. These two lone geniuses--Henry Fox Talbot in the seclusion of his English country estate at Lacock Abbey and Louis Daguerre in the heart of post-revolutionary Paris--through diligence, disappointment and sheer hard work overcame extraordinary odds to achieve the one thing man had for centuries been trying to do--to solve the ancient puzzle of how to capture the light and in so doing make nature 'paint its own portrait'. With the creation of their two radically different processes--the Daguerreotype and the Talbotype--these two giants of early photography changed the world and how we see it. Drawing on a wide range of original, contemporary sources and featuring plates in colour, sepia and black and white, many of them rare or previously unseen, Capturing the Light charts an extraordinary tale of genius, rivalry and human resourcefulness in the quest to produce the world's first photograph"-- Provided by publisher. Contents; Prologue: My First Daguerreotype -- The Locked Treasure Room -- Shadowgrams -- The Box of Wonders -- An Inheritance -- The Panorama -- An Innate Love of Knowledge -- More Beautiful than Nature -- Lacock Abbey -- Seeking the Impossible -- The Heliograph -- The Melancholy Artist -- Fixing the Image -- The Latticed Window, August 1835 -- The Magic Cabinet -- The Most Wonderful Discovery Ever Made -- From Today, Painting is Dead -- Photogenic Drawing. Subjects; Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851. Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877. Photographers--France--Biography. Photographers--England--Biography. Inventors--France--Biography. Inventors--England--Biography. PHOTOGRAPHY / History. 1 Kg.
Published by Pan Macmillan, 2018
ISBN 10: 1509892036ISBN 13: 9781509892037
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
Book Print on Demand
Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.
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Published by Macmillan Publishers Ltd., London, 2013
ISBN 10: 0230764576ISBN 13: 9780230764576
Seller: M RICHARDSON RARE BOOKS (PBFA Member), Ashby cum Fenby, NE Lincolnshire, LINCS, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A pretty much as new bright copy of this fascinating account of the birth of photography. Bound in very fresh looking black cloth boards with crisp title lettering on the spine. No inscriptions and the pages are clean and bright throughout. In fact the book looks to have been hardly read and is still tight. The dust jacket is not price clipped and is bright, without a hint of any sun fading. A little light shop shelf wear that's all. Superb copy.
Published by Macmillan, London .UK, 2013
Seller: powellbooks Somerset UK., Ilminster, SOM, United Kingdom
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is the story of the invention of photography and who got there first Fox-Talbot or Louis Daguerre. The text block is lightly marked on the fore-edge and tanned at the top .otherwise the book is square, tight and clean. Books are checked and photographed as proof against in-transit damage. Book price includes 2nd class parcel post in UK only.