Taylor, Roger, 1940-

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.

9781588392251 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc)) 9780300124057 (Yale University Press (hc))

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Calotype--History--Great Britain--19th century--Exhibitions.

TR395 / .T39 2007

779.092