First exposures : writings from the beginning of photography / Steffen Siegel, editor.
First exposures : writings from the beginning of photography / Steffen Siegel, editor.
First exposures : writings from the beginning of photography / Steffen Siegel, editor.
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Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2017]
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G 2020/0643
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English
German, French
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Physical content
448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
By hearsay : Laura Mundy to William Henry Fox Talbot ; (Arsène Houssaye): Diorama: The valley of the Goldau ; Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre to Isidore Niépce ; Eugène Hubert: M. Daguerre, the camera obscura, and the drawings that make themselves ; Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc to Eugène Viollet-le-Duc...
In parliament and academy : Dominique François Arago: Letter on the discovery by MM. Niépce and Daguerre ; Charles Marie Tanneguy Duchâtel to Dominique-François Arago ; Paul Delaroche: Report on the use and value of the Daguerreotype process from the perspective of the fine arts ; Anonymous: New...
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Publisher
Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2017]
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
"An exact date for the invention of photography is evasive. Scientists and amateurs alike were working on a variety of photographic processes for much of the early nineteenth century. Thus most historians refer to the year 1839 as the "first" year of photography, not because the sensational new medium was invented then, but because that is the year...
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First exposures : writings from the beginning of photography / Steffen Siegel, editor.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
Includes English translations from works originally in French and German.
Translation Of
Translation of: Neues Licht. Paderborn : Wilhelm Fink, [2014] 9783770557363 (DLC) 2014473337 (OCoLC)890589840
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©2017
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G 2020/0643
Record Identifier
74VKaZL3azWd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaZL3azWd
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ISBN
1606065246 (paperback)
9781606065242 (paperback)
DDC
770.9034
MMS ID
991024291018502626
