Helen Rappaport
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...