Impressed by light : British photographs from paper negatives, 1840-1860 /
Roger Taylor ; biographical dictionary by Larry J. Schaaf in collaboration with Roger Taylor.
- New York : Washington : New Haven : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; National Gallery of Art ; Yale University Press, 2007.
- xiv, 438 p. : ill. 25 cm x 30 cm.
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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