The Invention of Photography - the first fifty years by Quentin Bajac
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Title: The Invention of Photography - the first fifty years
Author: Quentin Bajac
Synopsis: A book about the advent of photography in 1839 and the developments in its first fifty years. The invention of photography was heralded in 1839 in Paris with the debut of the daguerrotype - a unique photograph produced on a silver-covered copper plate. Praised for its veracity, accuracy and its astonishingly sharp detail, the daguerrotype captured the collective imagination. Photography also came to be widely used for documentary purposes such as topographical surveys, scientific investigations, and reporting, while other users championed it as an artistic practice. With the advent of the print on paper, photographic images became truly multiple and, through new methods of printing and distribution, were soon spread around the world.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Date: 2002
Condition: VG
ISBN: 9780500301111
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